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FgyptianCarrot.Chantenay 
Corn, Golden Bantam Let¬ 
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Matchless. If purchased 
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Complete collection for 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
March is still lamblike. Today (March 
10) the Crocuses and the scarlet Ane¬ 
mones and the pansies from seed sown 
last Summer are all blooming. The let¬ 
tuce that has wintered in the open ground 
seed bed has been transplanted for head¬ 
ing. Early peas are starting, Irish pota¬ 
toes in the ground and the tomato plants 
transplanted to the frames. But we fear 
March even when bearing gifts, for we 
remember the fierce behavior several 
times before when March came in so mild. 
The worst I ever know was in Nortli 
Carolina the Spring of 1804. The weather 
turned hot the last of February, and all 
through the greater part of March we 
had real hot Summer weather, and every¬ 
thing got to growing. Clover was in 
bloom and the grapevines had made 
shoots 10 inches long and the grain fields 
headed out. Then the morning of the 
26th the thermometer marked 20 above 
zero, and in the Western part of the 
State much colder. The atmosphere was 
loaded with the odor of dead vegetation, 
for the clover was killed to the ground. 
Therefore I shall not be surprised if 
March gets lion-like before leaving us. 
Still the beautiful weather gives us a 
chance to get a great deal of the Spring 
work clone and to get the ground ready 
for the crops still to be planted. I like 
to get the tomato plants spotted out four 
inches apart in the frames before the 
middle of March, for the advancing sun 
makes things too warm in the green¬ 
house. and the plants grow too fast and 
get very tender. Out in the frames, if 
the weather threatens hard frost. I can 
cover the sashes with old carpets, and 
gradually the plants will get a purplish 
color on the stems, indicating a more 
hardy condition, and we can keep them 
from growing too tall. 
Eggplants and peppers I keep in the 
greenhouse, starting them in flats and 
transplanting to 2%-inch pots, and in the 
case of the eggplants shifting into four- 
inch pots later, to grow big and strong 
before setting in the garden in late May. 
The peppers will go out a little earlier. 
Several years ago T received from the 
Government Grounds at Chico, Cal., four 
plum trees representing two crosses. 
They have grown well and are now bloom¬ 
ing for the first time. Probably now my 
lone plum tree, for years failing to fruit, 
may now get some other pollen to help 
out. Then I am adding to the collection 
some other plum and cherry, pear and 
peach trees, as the garden is needlessly 
large for family use and involved too 
much labor for an old man. I hope that 
the cross-bred plums will be valuable. 
With old .potatoes selling so low the 
prospect does not look bright for the 
early crop from the South. I fear there 
is too heavy planting, and I have tried to 
discourage planting by individual farmers 
not in a section where there is an or¬ 
ganized selling exchange. Our exchanges 
handle the crop far more enconomically 
than isolated growers can. and may re¬ 
turn fair prices to the growers where 
the isolated farmer would lose. 
The high price of the New York stable 
manure promises to have the effect of 
shortening the area planted in melons, 
and the difficulty in getting any warrant 
as to price, may defer the planting of as 
many canning tomatoes as usual. 
It is strange how slowly farmers catch 
on to a profitable method. One man in 
this section fitted his place years ago 
with plenty of frames and sashes, and 
has been forwarding early tomato plants 
and shipping the early crop, letting the 
canners have what is left when the mar¬ 
ket price falls. He has made it profit¬ 
able, and will plant six acres this Spring. 
But intensive work in horticulture takes 
very slowly, and the use of sashes on 
frames that could be made very profitable 
here not only with the early tomatoes, 
hut with lettuce and other crops, has 
hardly been attempted, and the value of 
a single acre with frames has not struck 
the average trucker at *all. Even when 
one man is making glass pay the rest of 
our farmers seem unwilling to put money 
enough in the business to make them 
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