The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1023 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The early wet weather has been suc¬ 
ceeded by heat and intense drought. As 
the Skinner irrigation pipes only extend 
over part of my garden it looks as though 
the latest peas are to make a failure and 
get mildewed. The peas are the Long¬ 
fellow. Our first peas came in the middle 
of May, and we have had a continuous 
supply. We made two plantings of the 
tall Longfellow peas; the first planting 
has been in use nearly a week. The sec¬ 
ond planting was made nearly two weeks 
after the first, or the middle of March. I 
was aware that it was running a risk to 
plant a late tall pea here as late as the 
middle of March, for they are pretty cer¬ 
tain to strike the first dry heat. Both 
sowings are on portions of the wire fence 
and over the top of the fence. Unless rain 
comes very soon the last sowing will give 
us an inferior crop. 
My folks have a dish that is fine on the 
table but does not look right in the gar¬ 
den. I have to let the beets get about the 
size of a small marble before thinning 
them. Then the thinnings are boiled, 
little beets and all. and they make quite 
an addition to the greens, too. The spin¬ 
ach having all run to seed, the beet greens 
are very acceptable. Due plot of early 
tomatoes is under the irrigation pipe. 
Another of same age plants is outside. It 
may well be imagined that there is a vast 
difference in the size of the plants, and a 
still greater difference in the size of the 
tomatoes. I have had ripe tomatoes here 
June 12. But while they are now of very 
good size I can see no chance for ripe 
fruit this season on the 12tli. Still, being 
in the lead of all around me, my garden¬ 
er's ambition is satisfied. 
I have found the arsenate of lime, 
mixed equally with air-slaked lime, the 
most in.mediately effective means for kill¬ 
ing the potato bugs. Now, as usual, they 
have moved to the eggplants, and these 
have to be dusted. 
The strawberry season is over, and 
never in the history of the culture has the 
price held up near so high. In the rush 
for tomatoes at high prices last Summer 
the strawberries were neglected, and few 
had anything like a good crop, while the 
average quality was inferior. Though 
the prices were high, there is doubt as to 
the profit of the season. 
The rose chafers have about finished 
the grapes in spite of lead arsenate. The 
light colored roses are eaten up. and they 
have even skeletonized many of the leaves 
of the plum trees. They delight in Deut- 
zia scabra. If someone would only dis¬ 
cover some effective means for their de¬ 
struction it would be a great blessing, in 
sandy regions especially, for they breed 
better in sandy soils. 
“What is that arch of green yonder?” 
said a visitor. I told him that it was the 
Nanticoke blackberry. The top of the 
arch is fully 10 feet high and the growth 
was the result of my being sick last Sum¬ 
mer when the canes should have been 
pinched. Now. to get all the berries we 
will need a stepladder. I have mentioned 
the rampant growth of this berry before, 
and but for the fact that it continues the 
blackberry season till September, and the 
fact of its fine quality, I would have 
cleaned it out as being too coarse. The 
trailing dewberry, the Atlantic, is just as 
late, and its finely cut foliage makes it 
handsome. But its fruit is far inferior 
to that of the Nanticoke and of smaller 
quantity. 
Some salsify left over from the Winter 
was allowed to go to seed. I shall never 
do the same again, for the seed, with then- 
long spiderweb appendages, have blown 
all over the place like thistle seed, and I 
have no doubt that I shall have salsify all 
over the garden. 
Our cucumber and melon growers are 
growing this Spring a new squash which 
someone has brought here under the name 
of Italian squash. It seems to be a Sum¬ 
mer squash that comes off with the cu¬ 
cumbers. Then someone in New York 
City sent me seed of a squash which he 
claimed to be the best of all. I have 
these growing, and have been wondering 
if this is the same as the one called 
Italian. I have seen nothing new in 
Summer squashes in the catalogues, and 
am puzzled. w. F. massey. 
Trapping Squash Bug 
I have raised squashes every year for 
many years, and have "always trapped the 
black bugs without any trouble whatever 
except a little care every morning while 
they are active. You state that maybe 
the trap will work, but I should put it 
very much stronger than that. In 20 
years’ experience I have never made a 
failure of catching every black bug prac¬ 
tically that appeared. The traps I have 
used are barrel staves sawed in two in the 
middle. This makes a very good trap be¬ 
cause it is strong. Every morning you 
will find practically every black bug in 
the field uuder this trap, and it is an easy 
matter to step on them and kill them. I 
have killed some mornings several hun¬ 
dred in this way, and while a very few get 
away and breed a small colony it is not 
enough to do any harm to the mature 
squashes in the Fall. The striped bug is 
a different proposition. I have never been 
able to meet their ravages, but I have 
generally left in the hill more plants than 
the cultivators say should be left, and in 
that way have managed to have a crop. I 
have never made a failure, and have 
raised from a quarter of an acre to an 
acre and a half annually. 
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