Notes from a Maryland Garden 
My early tomatoes have been thorough¬ 
ly sprayed with Bordeaux mixture twice, 
and yet there is leaf blight and dropping 
of the lower leaves. This is one of the 
hardest fungi to combat. I expect that 
we shall have to begin spraying as soon 
as the plants are set out, and keep it up 
till tin fruit begins to color. Fortunately 
we kept the lower leaves perfect til! the 
lower clusters formed, and these have 
been very fine specimens. But if we do 
not keep strong, healthy leaves on the 
plants the later fruits will be much 
smaller in size. The fusarium wilt has 
appeared in some sections of this great 
tomato growing region, but efforts at 
producing resistant strains are proving 
successful and the disease may not spread. 
The Southern bacterial blight has not 
been found here, and there is little chance 
for it to be brought here, as no tomato 
plants or seed are ever brought here from 
farther South. This is the great draw¬ 
back to tomato culture in the South. Fu¬ 
sarium develops on so many kinds of 
plants that it is far more easy of trans- 
fer. T 
Now that the rains have come we have 
to fight with all our power against the 
worst weed we have in this soil, crab 
grass. Growing with amazing rapidity, 
spreading and rooting at every joint, it 
soon mats the ground thickly in moist 
and hot weather. If you hoe it off and 
fail to rake it out it will soon root again, 
and the work is to be done all over. In 
truck farming crab grass comes in very 
handily for hay, for after the string beans 
are picked, the tops are plowed under and 
the land harrowed smooth, and at once 
there is a crop of crab grass starting, and 
when cut in the right stage in bloom, it is 
equal to or better than Timothy, and costs 
only the cutting and curing. It is one of 
the annual grasses we can never get rid 
of. for the soil seems to be full of the 
seed, and in my garden, where no grass 
or weeds have been allowed to seed in a 
dozen years, the crab grass crop knows no 
failure. It crowds the lawn grass though 
always kept mown and never allowed to 
seed % Most people top-dress their lawns 
in Winter with manure and that main¬ 
tains a good supply of crab grass seed. I 
use raw bonemeal and have less crab 
grass in my lawn than most other people. 
In the floral line one of the newest and 
most highly praised plants is the Ganna 
called Fiery Cross, for which I paid 
Burpee $2 for a small bit with one eye 
last year. It had a bad chance last 
Summer, with drought and intense heat, 
but I got half a dozen good plants from 
it this season, and they have had special 
attention and are now in bloom. The 
variety is rather disappointing. The 
flowers are large and of the most bril¬ 
liant scarlet, and the head is large. But 
it has the bad habit of hanging its head, 
and hence is far less effective than older 
varieties right alongside of it which keep 
their bloom heads erect. 
The most showy plant in the garden at 
present is the Chinese trumpet flower, Big- 
uonia grandiflora. Its great orange-col¬ 
ored flowers massed against a background 
made by a large Viburnum opulus makes 
quite a show. 
Buddleia variabilis has been praised 
greatly of late. It makes pretty racemes 
of lilac-colored flowers, but is not effec¬ 
tive in the shrubbery because of its strag¬ 
gling growth. Then the flowers open in, 
succession, so that it is hard to get a| 
cluster all in bloom, for the lower half 
of the raceme is brown before the tip 1 
Powers open. Still, it gives a variety in 
the shrubbery when shrub flowers are 
scarce. 
But the garden is bright now. this 
second week in July, with the various 
colors of the perennial Phlox and the 
Gladioli. Niagara, with its large pale 
yellow flowers and great heads open at 
once, masses splendidly, and at a little 
distance seems white when contrasted 
with the shorter stemmed colored varie¬ 
ties around it, for it is the tallest 
stemmed variety I have. I grow a lot 
of them in rows among the vegetables 
solely for cutting for the house. A vase 
of Gladiolus flowers, cut when but few 
flowers are open, lasts till the final flow¬ 
ers at the tip are open. Dahlias ax*e 
blooming, but the time for the real Dahlia 
show is not midsummer, but early Fall. 
W. F. MASSRY. 
Treatment of Hydrangea Hortensis 
I have about «>0 Hydrangea hortensis 
which were flowering during April and 
May in the conservatory. How should I 
treat them to have them in bloom next 
Spring? G. P. 
Central Valley, N. Y. 
The plants may be pruned quite severely 
and plunged outdoors for the Summer. 
Plunging the pots in coal ashes is desir¬ 
able, as this prevents the entrance of 
worms into the pots. They may be re¬ 
potted the latter part of September, shel¬ 
tered until they start into growth, and 
kept in a cool greenhouse until about 
January, when a temperature of 50 to 
00 degrees may be given. They require 
liberal watering and an application of 
liquid manure given about once a week 
until the flower buds are formed. A con¬ 
genial compost for Hydrangeas consists 
of loam, leaf mold and sand, enriched 
with bone meal and well-rotted cow 
manure. The pots should have ample 
drainage, but shortage of water causes 
the heavy foliage to flag, aud gives the 
whole plant a severe check. 
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