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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The cold, wet Spring lias been of ad¬ 
vantage in one respect, if not two. The 
peonies are making the finest bloom 1 
have had here for years, though not s 
heavy as I have seen in the North, and 
in a clay soil, but very fine here, when 
our sandy soil gets hot early and we get 
only the earliest of the peonies, the later 
ones drying up in the bud. But now tin 
later ones are blooming profusely, and 
Feetiva Maxima, the splendid white one, 
is still making a flue show. 
Another advantage of the wet seems to 
he promising. The grapes are in full 
bud and almost in bloom, and not a rose 
chafer has been seen. Usually by the 
time the flower buds appear on the 
grapevines the rose bugs are on them in 
swarms, and if we do not fight daily we 
get no grapes at all. and with the best 
fight they get a large share of the fruit 
by eating the bloom. I spray with lead 
arsenate, corn syrup and water, and I 
had the poison on the vines ready for the 
varmints. None here yet, and it may be 
that the soil is so wet and heavy they 
have not waked up. If they miss us it 
will be the first time I have known them 
to fail to arrive on time here. This is 
one disadvantage of a sandy soil. The 
rose chafers do not thrive so well in a 
clay loam, though they do arrive in clay 
soil sections, hut far fewer than in a 
sandy one. 
The leaf blight on tomatoes is a tough 
fungus to prevent. In spite of spraying 
there is already some evidence of it on 
the early plants. The potato bugs seem 
this season to be especially partial to the 
tomato plants. I hear of growers who 
sowed for the canning crop in the open 
ground who have had their entire sowing 
eaten by the beetles when only an inch 
or two high. I have had to hand-pick 
the old beetles from my early plants. 
One man writes that he lias curled kale 
in full bloom, and right alongside of it 
his early Irish potatoes. The kale is 
covered with the potato beetles and not 
one on the potatoes. I never heard of 
their eating cruciferous plants before. If 
they will gather on kale it would be a 
good plan to sow some kale near the 
potatoes and spray them with kerosene 
after the bugs assemble. So far as I can 
discover, there are just four plums on 
one of the trees sent me several years 
ago from the Government grounds at 
Chico, California. I am watching those 
four plums with a good deal of interest. 
From the size they have attained this 
early it would seem that they promise 
to be large. I understand they are 
crosses of the Wild Goose, being long 
and pointed. I planted several other 
varieties of plums this Spring, for it is 
important to have a number of varietie • 
to insure pollination in plums. As the 
garden now contains eight plum trees I 
may expect perfect pollination when nil 
get to blooming. 
My one vine of tin' Vulpina class of 
grapes, the class of the Scuppernong, was 
nipped some in the hard Winter of 
lOlT-l.'s. but was nut at all hurt last 
Winter. The variety is the Memory, 
which is claimed to he fine, but I have 
never grown it till this vine was sent me. 
and as yet it has not fruited, and its 
growth, while rapid, is of a delicate type, 
and does not promise to claim the earth 
as the Scuppernong does. A neighbor 
here has the Scuppernong and ripens the 
fruit. I have never known one to make 
fruit north of here or even to survive. 
This class of grapes has one advantage 
in that they bloom after the rose chafer 
season. w. k. massey. 
Controlling Squash Bugs 
Regarding the *l)Ug pest on squash and 
other similar vines, for the last 3S years 
I have practiced putting papers over the 
hills when I plant them, putting either 
stones or dirt to hold the papers down. I 
let them remain ; the plants will come up 
through them and the bugs do not trouble. 
Some years I have neglected to do so; 
then I place two boards about 12 or 1.1 
in. long, about 4 or 5 in. wide, and each 
morning go out and pick them up and rub 
them together and in two or three morn¬ 
ings you have them conquered. This is 
especially good for the stink bug. I place 
the boards by the hills when I plant them. 
The bugs will go under the boards instead 
of elsewhere. \v. h. cook. 
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