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Notei From a Maryland Garden 
At this season of the Summer flowers 
are scarce in the shrubbery. The Spirsea 
Anthony Waterer is still showing flowers, 
l)ut the gayest bush just now is a big 
Rugosa rose over 10 feet high and litei-- 
aMy covered with its red hips. From the 
street this bush looks as though covered 
with little red flowers. Near by this is 
.‘i plant of Bignonia grandiflora trained up 
to the end of the porch, and now covered 
with its great clusters of big orange-col¬ 
ored flowers, the most showy thing on the 
place. Years ago I saw a plant of this 
in a large lawn trained to a po.st 10 feet 
high and then allowed to drop like a 
weeping tree all around. This Avas .a 
great show when in bloom. IMy plant is 
gralfted on the roots of our native Bignoni.a 
radicans, and one is kept busy keeping 
down the suckers, just as we haA e to keep 
down the dog rose stock on Avhich rose 
are grafted. The same trouble is had in 
the South with the lilac. Lilacs bloom 
better southward when worked on the 
common privet, but if not watched you 
will soon have privet instead of lilac. 
But, as a horticultural editor once said 
to a Southern subscriber who asked him 
how to grow lilacs in the South: “Let us 
have the lilacs here in the North. You 
can grow crape myrtles and Ave cannot, 
and they bloom longer and are more 
shoAvy than the lilacs.” As a relic of the 
past Winter I have urdiced a big crape 
myrtle tree here recently. Tt is' fully 20 
feet high, and has been on the same laAA’n 
for generations, but last Winter hurt it 
badly, and I noticed that but one limb 
is alive and that one is now brav-ely 
lilooming. It is the rare crimson variety. 
Another in the same l.aAvu Avas killed to 
the ground. And nature had so much 
lu'at left over from last Winter that she 
has been scorching us this _Summer as 
badly ns she froJie us la.st Wintei*. Tem¬ 
perature of 108 in the shade is as rare 
hero as the zero of last Winter. 
In. our sandy soil it is hard to get seed 
to germinate except under the irrigation 
pipe, and that space being fully occupied 
T have been obliged to sow seed like tur¬ 
nips and spinach where the Avater does 
not reach. FTence no plants yet. for the 
mercile.ss sun has so dried the sandy soil 
that there is not moisture enough to SAvell 
the seed. While our light soil is fine for 
early crops, it is hard to get the succes¬ 
sion crops .started in the hot AA’oather, un¬ 
less irrigation is pr.acticed. ^The contra.st 
in my garden between the irrigated part 
and that left to nature to water is very 
striking. 
Amid this heat and droAight a man liv¬ 
ing in lower South Carolina stopped to 
con.sult me on his aa'R.v from a visit to 
Ncav England, and said that he saw 
frost enough in Vermont to_ cut tomato 
A ines a week ago. And out in Oklahoma 
jiiy daughter says that gardens look as 
though life Avas not Avorth living. An¬ 
other daughter in El Paso says that she 
is trying hard to get AA^ater enough to keeji 
some trees alive on her lawn, or what 
Avould be a lawn if there was any grass. 
\Miat a country we have! 
A corresimndent asks my opinion alwut 
Burbank’s wonderful new wheat. I have 
no opinion about it, for I have never seen 
it nor grown it. I would, however, sug¬ 
gest that it will be wise to wait till the 
Avheat has been tested by our Eastern ex¬ 
periment stations, and they report _ its 
value. I certainly Avould not inA^est just 
now $20 for a bushel of it. 
“How is it,” said a neighbor, “that 3 ’our 
big Crimson Rambler is blooming so pret¬ 
tily here the middle of August? Mine 
bloomed the last of May.” So did mine, 
but my plant is an improvement on the 
old Crimson Rambler. The floAA’ers and 
the clusters of floAA’ers are somewhat 
larger and of a deeper color. It is called 
the Flower of Fairfield, or everblooming 
Crimson Rambler. But, as usually treat¬ 
ed, it is a disappointment. Most of the 
ramblers of any color xisually look as 
though life was hardly worth living, for 
they are covered Avith mildoAV and rather 
shabby looking objects. This evcrbloom- 
iug Rambler Avas for a year or two a 
disappointment to me. True, I could beep 
it clear of mildew by spraying Avith for¬ 
maldehyde, one pint in 2i* gallons of 
water. But the bloom after the first shoAv 
was very trifling. Only a little cluster 
here and there. Noav a very satisfacto.'y 
bloom is gotten in August merely by jri- 
dicious pruning after the first bloom is 
over. As soon as these early clusters fade 
the flowering shoots are all cut back close 
to the main cane, and the best bloom on a 
Rambler rose is on the long canes^ made 
the preA’ious season. I cut out in the 
late Winter pruning, all stunted growth 
and the old canes two years old, and^ tie 
out the long canes that grew the previous 
Summer. These string out the lateral 
blooming shoots through their Avhole 
length, and it is these shoots I cut back 
as the Spring bloom fades, and from these 
come the new shoots for the August 
bloom. 
I have still one kudzu plant that has 
been allowed to run at wall over the Avpod 
and coal house. But last AA'eek I found 
that it was not content Avit’h running over 
the wood house, which it Avas welcome to 
hide, but its long runners had crept along 
the ground and w'ere rooting among my 
raspberries on the one hand and out under 
the grape arbor on the other. So I got a 
man with hedge shears and let him shear 
it in all directions. He cut out nearly a 
wagonload, and the vine noAv looks like a 
tramp with a hair cut. I have had a 
sireat many inquiries about this plant and 
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its value a/; forage. 1’here is no doubt 
about the mass of giowth it Avill make. T 
do not believe there is any plant grown 
that AA'ill make a greater ma.ss, and it is 
claimed that the forage makes excellent 
feed. In the Houth there are many en¬ 
thusiastic growers Avho value kudzu highly 
both as a hay plant and for pasture. It f 
certainly mu.st be kept cut or pasturtKl ! 
very closely or it will .soon get Avoody. I ' 
sui)pose that in tho North it Avould* kill i 
probably to the ground. Here it does ' 
not kill back to any extent except of the ' 
late Fall green slioots. By constant dig- i 
ging out I haAC finally succeeded in get- ! 
ting rid of the kudzu next my front porch. 1 
and may yet have to try to abolish the big ' 
one in the back yard. The plant mav j 
haA’o great value, but, like Johnson grass , 
in the South, it is too aggre.ssive. 
The soAA'ing of spiujich for Fall cutting 
has been made. The only spinach Avorth 
.soAving i.s the round-seeded Savoy. I have 
often wonder why the seedsmen continue 
to list the prickly-seeded variety. Y'ears 
ago some advised tho sowing of the round- 
seeded in the Fall and the prickly-seeded 
in Spring. Many years ago I did make a 
Spring seeding of the prickly seed, but 
noATr repeated it. My Chinese cabbages 
were a total failure this Summer, OAving 
to the heat and drought, as they were out- ' 
side the irrigation pipe. But the Ohiuesc ! 
Celestial radishes are growing like ruta¬ 
bagas. These immense radishes are lx‘t- j 
ter than turnips Avheu boiled, and they ' 
stand a great deal of cold before it is nec¬ 
essary to lift them. 
It is often odd to note hoAV old habits 
stick to farmers. A farmer planted a 
small field of S to well sugar corn near me. 
He gathered and sold the ears, and then 
carefully stripped the blades below Avhere 
the ears grew and exit the tops above that, 
leaving the remainder of the green stalks 
standing, not seeming to realize that the 
AA'hole Avas feed and should have simidy 
been cut to the ground. And here still 
the majority of our farmers stick to the 
old practice of topping and blading their 
coim, and doing it moi’e in I'eference to 
the quality of the fodder than of tho <‘orn. 
It is useless to tell them that they are 
losing corn enough to pay for the fodder. 
They Avaut the fodder simply because they 
fail to groAV haj' enoupdi. 
A^^ F. MASSKV. 
Pear Psylla 
I liave .some pear trees, the fruit of 
Avhich for three years has been unfit for 
use on account of hornets or Avasps A’isit- 
ing the trees, and the effect is a smut and 
specks on branches, fruit and leaves. 
The leaves dry and fall off. Could you 
suggest a remedy? Would cedar trees 
near have an.v effect on them? a. C. s. 
Dorchester, Mass. 
I am quite sure that the trouble is 
caused by an insect known as the pear 
psylla, and not by the hornets and Avasps. 
The pear psylla is .a small sucking insect 
AA-hich attacks tho foliage of the pears 
during the growing season, and about 
midsummer a sticky material forms upon 
the leaA-es and drops upon the pear.s, and 
certain fungi, AX’hich in themselves are 
harmless to the tree, cause this sticky 
substance to turn black, AA'hich disfigures 
the leaA'es, tAvigs and fruits. The hor¬ 
nets and w^asps are not iufi'cqueutly at¬ 
tracted to this sticky material, as they feed 
upon it. Tho psylla can easily be found 
close to the midribs on the under side of 
the leaves. 
If the bark of the trees is rough, it is 
well to scrape it off and in early Spring, 
just as tho pear buds are well developed, 
so that the bloom buds are Avell formed, 
spray tho trees with lime-sulphur at 
Winter strength, to Avhich is added Black 
Leaf 40, or 40 per cent nicotine sulphate 
at the Tate of one part to 000 parts of 
spray. One aa’ouUI expect that Winter 
strength lime-sulphur Avould burn th<^ 
jneAV groAvth of the pe.ars, but such is not 
the case if the spraying is not del.ayed 
beyond the point Avhere the bloom buds 
are Avell formed, but before the petals 
show white. This spraying may not con¬ 
trol all of the psylla, but if oxie cxai- 
tinues to use lime-sulphur as a Summer 
spray for pears, and the AAmrk is thor¬ 
oughly done, the psylla should be well 
controlled. The second spraying of the 
f ears should be just as the ixetals fall 
rom the blooms, and repeated 10 days ■ 
later and about tAVO Aveeks later. Arsen¬ 
ate of lead should be added to the lime- 
sulphur Summer spray in each applica¬ 
tion to control leaf-feeding insects. 
Where the psylla are not very numerous 
it is often possible to get good control by 
the spraj’ings applied, beginning at the 
time the poals fall, but if the bark is 
rough, and the insects are numerous, the'! 
first spra.ving .should certainlj' be applied. ; 
In spraying pears in midsummer AA-ith 
lime-sulphur one should be cautious about , 
making the treatment xipoii a very bl ight ' 
day, as the pears are occasionally scalded 
upon the sunny side. This should not 
occur, however, if the application is made 
during the cooler portion of the day, or 
at a time AA’heu the sun is not too bright. 
M. A. BLAKE. 
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