The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1341 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The early tomato crop was remarkably 
good. I grow the Bonny Best altogether 
for the early crop. Growers of late to¬ 
matoes for the canning factories have 
made the most complete failure I have 
ever known. In the first place, the un¬ 
certainty as to price for contracting 
caused a smaller area to be planted than 
usual, the plants were later than usual, 
and the weather has been decidedly 
against the late crop. In my garden the 
late tomatoes are now (September 1) 
just beginning to ripen, and most of the 
fields I have noticed in a railroad ride up 
through Delaware seem even later. The 
packers will have a very short season and 
a very small pack. Generally at this 
date one sees a regular string of two- 
story wagons loaded with baskets of to¬ 
matoes. Now the grocers are putting 
them into strawberry boxes at 10 cents 
each, or about $3.20 per bushel. The 
canners will get none except those con¬ 
tracted for earlier. 
I have been on Long Island, and was 
pleased to see the neatness of the market 
gardens and the apparent adaptation of 
the soil to truck. The cleanness of the 
crops reminded me of the Eastern Shore 
of Virginia. But the area of the gardens 
was much less on Long Island. There 
were no 100-acre potato fields which were 
common on the Eastern Virginia farms. 
By the by, the two small counties of 
Accomac and Northampton sold through 
their exchange 6,000 carloads of early 
Irish potatoes for $8,000,000. and many 
crops were sold in a lump to Western 
buyers who came down and bought whole 
fields at a uniform price per barrel. 
Long trains, and several a day, are now 
rushing the early sweet potatoes North, 
and crop, while not in as large area as the 
Irish potato crop, will probably amount 
to more money. In the flower garden the 
moist season has brought out a wonderful 
growth and bloom on the Cannas. I have 
some of the old small-flowered variety 
which I keep for their massive foliage 
and tall growth. They make a fine center 
for a bed surrounded by the more dwarf 
large-flowered varieties. 
The seedling Dahlias are coming into 
bloom, and while the majority of the 
flowers fail to measure up to the modern 
standard, I am getting some really re¬ 
markable flowers. Watching seedling per¬ 
ennials coming into bloom is great fun 
to a lover of the garden. Some of my 
Canna seedlings are as fine as any of a 
choice 25 varieties Avhich I bought as the 
finest known in the trade. 
The beds and porch boxes filled with 
the ever-blooming Begonias are now mak¬ 
ing a brave show. The geraniums which 
I saw making beautiful beds on Long 
Island are worthless here, and the Be¬ 
gonias and scarlet sage take their place. 
I save the seed and grow the Begonias 
from seed every year. Then of course I 
save my own seed of the scarlet sage. 
I do not remember to have seen any of 
the scarlet Salvia in bloom on Long 
Island. Perhaps it comes in later there. 
Here it blooms early in June, and is a 
blaze of scarlet all Summer. By keeping 
the ripening spikes cut out the fresh ones 
come out faster, and the cut spikes are 
let dry on newspapers and then are easily 
rubbed out. I always save an abundance 
of flower seed, for there are lots of homes 
nearby of the men who work in the mills: 
their wives are glad to get seed and plants 
for their yards, and it is a pleasure for 
me to give them. 
My woven wire fences, as I have often 
observed, are about as useful as any part 
of the garden. On one 50-foot piece I 
had the tall-growing late peas. When 
they were over their vines were cleaned 
off and plants of Lima beaus started in 
four-inch pots were set, and now the 
fence is well covered with the beans. On 
another piece of similar length I have 
the early Sieva or small Lima bean, 
which always gives twice the crop or 
more here than the large Lima. 
After trying the seedsmen’s okra seed 
and getting inferior varieties, I got this 
year from an amateur gardener in the 
South the true Creole or White Velvet 
okra, and hope to keep it, for it seems 
impossible to get the pure long-podded 
variety from the seedsmen. They have 
got it crossed with the green sorts, and 
the seed produces short and ridgy pods, 
and resembles the White Velvet only in 
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