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Notes From a Maryland Garden 
The morning of January 5 gave us our 
first touch of a cold wave, with a tem¬ 
perature of 16 above zero, and on the 7th 
as low as 14. But the days are brilliant 
and sunny. The morning of the 6th 
showed the ground covered with snow for 
the first time, but it thawed fast during 
the day, and the putting of so much mois¬ 
ture into the air with snow on the ground 
accounts for the lower temperature at 
night. We filled boiler and pipes on Jan¬ 
uary 4 and have already got the seed of 
the Everblooming Begonias sown to grow 
our supply for bedding next Spring. We 
find these about the most reliable bedding 
plant we can use, as the geraniums are 
worthless here for that purpose, but the 
Begonias stand sun and drought and a 
hot sandy soil and bloom all the time. 
The dust-like seeds arc sown on the sur¬ 
face of Hats and not covered, but merely 
pressed smooth with a block. Our seeds 
are saved from the beds of mixed colors, 
and give plants varying from white to 
flesh color, rose piuk and crimson. It 
seems wonderful that so minute a thing 
as a Begonia seed can carry the potential¬ 
ity of a big plant. But when we consider 
that life exists in bacterial forms so small 
as to tax the highest power immersion 
objectives on our microscopes, forms so 
small that it would take about 1,500 to 
make a circle around a printed period, 
the Begonia seed begins to look large. 
I was interested in reading what Mr. 
Hartman of Florida had to say recently 
about the “frost-proof” cabbage plants. 
Mr. Hartman says that the Fall planting 
of early cabbages is from Norfolk south. 
It is from Baltimore southward. As he 
says, they are generally set low down on 
the south side of ridges. I found years 
ago in North Carolina that this was a 
mistake. Set there on the south side of 
the ridge the plants are exposed to the sun 
in the morning when frozen, and thia 
often does serious damage. Then, too, 
the weather there often gets quite v. arm 
between the cold waves, and the plants 
on the sunny side of the ridge get to grow¬ 
ing tender and a return of cold kills them. 
I found that they lived far better when 
set on the north side of the ridge. They 
then remain dormant and sheltered from 
the sun in the morning. Then experi¬ 
ments made at the Georgia Experiment 
Station showed that there was far less 
loss on the north side than on the south 
side of the ridge, and there was still less 
damage done when the plants are set in 
open furrows running east and west. 
They are then sheltered from both sides. 
The important point in setting cabbage 
and lettuce plants in the Fall is the set¬ 
ting of the cabbage plants deep enough to 
cover the entire stem, for if the stem is 
burst by frost the plant will be worth¬ 
less even if not killed. But so far as I 
have experimented there is but one variety 
worth setting in the Fall, and even this 
one will at times run to seed badly, where 
the plants get overgrown in the Fall. This 
variety is the Early Jersey Wakefield. I 
have tried the Early Flat Dutch and the 
Copenhagen Market, but they will invari¬ 
ably all run to seed in the Spring instead 
of heading. When growing further north, 
like Mr. Hartman, I wintered over thou¬ 
sands of plants in cold frames and sold 
them in the Spring. At that time we got 
price enough to make it pay, hut now, 
with the cheap Southern product on the 
market, it would not pay to winter plants 
in frames. 
I also see a note about puttying sashes. 
Hotbed sashes that are handled so much 
are far more liable to breakage than the 
fixed glass in a greenhouse roof, and re¬ 
pairing puttied sashes is a troublesome 
job and hard to make a fit often without 
taking out a whole row of glass. I have 
not used a puttied sash for 30 years. My 
sashes are all made of thick heart cypress 
grooved for two layers of glass. The panes 
are slipped in and made tight with the 
double-pointed glazing tacks. Then when 
a pane breaks it is easy to loosen up and 
slip up the glass and insert a new pane 
below. I would not allow a man to putty 
a sash for me if he would do it without 
cost. 
The Stayman apple, though it originat¬ 
ed in the West, has seemed to be peculiar¬ 
ly adapted to the Eastern coast country. 
In the “Apples of New York” it is not 
considered valuable for New York. Every 
Fall the first Staymans we get here come 
from the mountain sections of Virginia 
and West Virginia. They are prettier 
than ours here, but are as dry as a Ben 
Davis. Later ou the Staymans from the 
eastern shore of Maryland and the large 
orchards of that variety in Delaware 
come in, and we have the best eating 
apple grown. They are brittle and juicy, 
and totally unlike those grown in the in¬ 
terior. For the eastern coast the Stay- 
man is doubtless the best Winter apple, 
though the Delicious is making good, too. 
With somewhat similar conditions there is 
no doubt that the Stayman should thrive 
well on Long Island. We find here that 
for a Fall and early Winter apple the 
Grimes Golden is hard to equal, but it 
scalds badly when put iuto cold storage. 
Some years ago I made a series of lectures 
at the University of West Virginia in 
February. At oue of my lectures a pro¬ 
fessor brought iu some apples for me to 
identify. I told him that they were a 
West Virginia apple, Grimes Golden. 
“But.” said lie, “Grimes is yellow, and 
these apples are russet.” They were real¬ 
ly rnssetted all over from keeping in cold 
storage to what was a late date for the 
variety. w. f. massey. 
Savory Herbs 
The following information is taken 
from the Bulletin of the Missouri Bo¬ 
tanical Garden: 
Savory, or culinary, herbs are aromatic 
plants used to add flavor to various 
cooked products. Most of them are readily 
grown and should more frequently find a 
place in small gardens than they do at 
present. Not only does their aroma add 
to the palatability and variety of the or¬ 
dinary diet, but certain condimental prop¬ 
erties aid in digestion. Plants, like rue. 
stimulate the appetite and thus form a 
part of beverages which are used as appe¬ 
tizers. Others, like parsley, are used 
merely for garnishing, while various oils 
employed in perfumery are yielded by a 
number of herbs. 
The following table indicates the herbs 
grown last Summer in the economic gar¬ 
den. with their uses and methods of prop¬ 
agation : 
Angelica : Stems and leaves as salad : 
seeds for flavoring. Seeds sown during 
late Summer. 
Anise: Leaves as garnish; seeds and 
oil for flavoring and perfumes. Seeds 
sown iu early Spring. 
Balm : Foliage for flavoring and salad; 
oil for perfumery and beverages. Division, 
cuttings, seeds. 
Basil: High seasoning; oil for perfum¬ 
ery. Seeds sown in Spring. 
Borage: Foliage as salad, garnish, or 
flavoring. Seeds sown in Spring. 
Faraway : Herbage as salad ; roots as 
vegetables, seeds as flavoring; oil for per¬ 
fumery. Sow in Spring. 
Fatnip : Condiment. Sow in Spring. 
Fhervil: Leaves for seasoning. Seeds. 
Chives: Flavoring. Bulbs or division. 
Clary: In making wines. Seeds. 
Coriander: Seed in confections, condi¬ 
ments. beverages, flavoring. Seeds. 
Cumin: Flavoring iu pickle, pastry, 
soup. Seeds. 
Dill: Seeds as seasoning for pickle; 
oil for perfumery; vinegar as condiment. 
Seeds. 
Fennel: Herbage for garnishing and 
flavoring; seeds iu beverages and confec¬ 
tionery ; oil for perfumery. Seeds. 
llorehound: Confectionery. Seeds. 
Hyssop: Salad; oil in preparation of 
soap. Division, cuttings, seeds 
Lavender: Flowers and oil in perfum¬ 
ery : condiment. Division or cuttings. 
Marigold : Flowers as seasoning, butter 
coloring. Seeds. 
Marjoram: Seasoning; oil in perfum¬ 
ery. Division or cuttings. 
Mint: Seasoning. Division or cuttings. 
Parsley: Seasoning, garnish. Seeds. 
Pennyroyal: Seasoning. Division. 
Peppermint: Flavoring, perfume in 
soap. Divieibn. 
Rosemary: Seasoning; oil in perfum¬ 
ery. Cuttings or seeds. 
Rue : Seasoning, flavor in beverages : 
oil in perfumery. Division, cuttings, 
seeds. 
Sage: Seasoning; oil in perfumery. 
Division, cuttings, seeds. 
Savory, Summer: Seasoning. Seeds. 
Savory, Winter: Seasoning. Division, 
Cuttings, seeds. 
Tansy: Seasoning. Division, cuttings, 
seeds. 
Tarragon : Seasoning, salads, decoction 
in vinegar; oil in perfumery. Division, 
cuttings, seeds. 
Thyme: Seasoning: oil in perfumery: 
oil crystals as disinfectants. Division, 
cuttings, seeds. 
Stick to Familiar Crops 
I believe that nothing will help more 
to stabilize the very unsettled condition 
of affairs and help more during the recon¬ 
struction period than just plugging stead¬ 
ily ahead, growing the crops one has al¬ 
ways successfully raised and really knows 
how to grow. Some of the most notable 
failures during the period of the war have 
been made bv those who have tried new 
crons. * EARLE DILATUSH. 
