B3*e RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Our big bushes of Pyrus Japonica al¬ 
ways produce a few quinces, which we 
bi’ing into the house because of their 
fragrance. This past Summer we had an 
unusual quantity of the fruit, and of 
good size. The better-half then deter¬ 
mined that they should not be wasted, so 
she went to work and made them into 
marmalade, and everyone pronounces it 
the finest quince jam they have tasted. 
Hereafter we will get the pretty flowers 
as usual and will save the fruit for use, 
too. 
As I have drawn off the water from 
the pipes in the little greenhouse and am 
saving coal till February, all potted plants 
are in the dwelling windows, and the 
greenhouse has flats with pansy plants; 
they are doing finely in the unheated 
house and blooming, too. Hence the 
greenhouse is not entirely desolate. In 
fact, there are many things one could have 
in Winter in an unheatcd greenhouse in 
this climate, for, with double-glazed 
sashes, there will 'be little freezing, and 
the bulbs would bloom, and Phlox Drum- 
mondii and mignonette, too. Amateur 
greenhouse gardeners are apt to overdo 
the heating, and in that way damage 
some things more than cold would. 
Spiraea Thunbergii is generally the first 
of the species to bloom in the Spring. 
Just now it has concluded that Winter 
is over and today (Dec. 24) is blooming 
its little white flowers, and the buds on 
the Forsythias are dangerously swollen. 
Tomorrow is Christmas Day, and though 
it is drizzling today, there seems no pros¬ 
pect for a white Christmas. The weather 
prophets of my boyhood told me that the 
direction of the wind on Dec. 21 would 
indicate the character of the Winter. 
Here on that day the wind was southeast, 
and I suppose that we are to have a mild, 
rainy Winter. We are entitled to a mild 
one after the terror we had last Winter, 
when for a month the water pipes, buried 
too shallow for Manitoba weather, froze 
in the streets, and water had to be car¬ 
ried by hand from a neighboring well. 
Next week I shall make out my entire 
list of seed for the season and will have it 
in the hands of a seedsman early in Janu¬ 
ary. I have followed this practice for 
years, and find it the best plan. Some 
kinds of seed may not be on hand, but 
the seedsman makes note of this and sends 
them later. As we put in the extra early 
peas in late January or early February, 
it is very necessary to order early. Then 
the Prizetaker onions are to be sown in 
the frame in late January, and some 
beets and radishes, too, under the glass, 
and we cannot do these things unless we 
have the seed at hand. Then, too, there 
often happens a failure' of some kind of 
seed, and the stock in the hands of seeds¬ 
men will be very short, and the people 
who defer sending for seed till they want 
them for planting will often get disap¬ 
pointed. The early gardener, like the 
early worm, catches his object. 
Having been disabled all Summer, I 
find that 6ome of my salsify did not get 
thinned, and it is wonderful to note that 
the roots crowded together have lost very 
little in size as compared with the part 
that did get thinned. In fact, salsify 
does not seem to need thinning more than 
two inches apart, or even less. Salsify 
and leeks are still growing, for the weath¬ 
er we have had during November and 
December has suited them better than 
the earlier temperatures. Salsify, sown 
here as early as is practiced in the North, 
will be apt to run to seed, while sown in 
June it gets it growth in the most suit¬ 
able weather for its perfection. 
One day last week I took up some sal¬ 
sify for the kitchen. At dinner time my 
daughter announced, “You will have to 
eat veal oysters today, for the oyster 
plant got scorched.” We are better off 
than the city dwellers and the people in 
the interior, for we get the oysters fresh 
from their shells in their own liquor, and 
not plumped up in ice water, and though 
the oyster plant reminds one very much of 
the oyster flavor, the real oysters are far 
better, of course. w. F. massey 
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