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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
For the first time in my garden ex¬ 
perience in Maryland I have Cannas in 
full glory untouched by frost Novem¬ 
ber 1, the thermometer standing at 85 
degrees at noon, and the lowest tempera¬ 
ture Halloween night was 06 degrees. 
We often have this sort of weather in 
November, after the frost has killed every 
tender thing, but to run into the finest 
of Indian Summer without a particle of 
frost is unusual. I feel sure that Octo¬ 
ber, 1019, holds the record for high tem¬ 
perature. 
Such a complete bloom of the Chry¬ 
santhemums outdoors is seldom had, for 
while we can bloom any of the varieties 
except the very latest, the flowers are 
usually more or less damaged by this 
date. The early blooming ones, like 
October Snow, have been in bloom for 
quite a while, and now the late pompons 
are a mass of bloom. I have quite a 
number of varieties of these which I grew 
from the Japanese seed several years ago. 
Some of the single flowered ones arc fully 
as pretty as the double ones. In fact, 
for cutting for vases they are more beau¬ 
tiful, I think. Dahlias have about 
bloomed themselves out, and the number 
of flowers is scarce. The mild Autumn 
has been of great help to my spinach. I 
sowed at the usual time in early August 
seed that cost mo ,$1.35 a pound and en¬ 
tirely failed to get a stand. Later I 
bought seed here for 50 cents a pound and 
got a fine stand. But there would have 
been little Fall cutting had the weather 
not remained mild, and not only mild but 
often hot. 
Other late crops have made a great 
growth ; the leeks are extraordinary. The 
tops are over knee high and the leaves 
straightened up will reach my waist. 
Then, too, of course the hardy leek will 
keep growing till Christmas. • 
Usually I have plenty of well-grown 
green tomatoes to gather and wrap up 
and store for late use when frost comes, 
but this Fall they ripened to the last 
tomato, and the plants simply stopped and 
refused to bear more, till now they have 
started off a new growth and bloom, 
which of course will not now avail any¬ 
thing. Plenty of volunteer tomato plants 
have appeared in the garden aud. if one 
only had room under glass, he might get 
a good Winter crop. 
My little greenhouse boiler has been 
drawn off and refilled, and the pipes are 
now ready to heat, for the kindling has 
been in the furnace for a week or two 
waiting the notice of the weather to fire 
up. The coal miners’ strike will not 
affect us, as we use only anthracite coal, 
and my supply was stored in June. The 
deciduous shrubbei’y is shedding its ripe 
leaves, aud many of the trees are like¬ 
wise casting them, while right alongside 
the Hybrid Tea roses are throwing fresh 
buds and bloom. The big double Zinnias 
of course make a show in the.beds, but 
to my taste the little Zinnia Haageana 
makes a far prettier bed. Wc prefer 
fragrant flowers that are useful for cut- j 
ting for the table and house vases, and 
Zinnias of the large type are too coarse 
for cutting. It does not look like a meal 
if we have no vase of bloom in the center 
of the table. 
A Tennessee correspondent seuds me a 
branch of Callicarpa Americana as sonm- 
thing new, showing how little people ob¬ 
serve the plants around them. This hand¬ 
some shrub is a common roadside plant 
south of Virginia, and probably would 
be hardy some way north of there. Just 
now as its leaves fall the branches cov¬ 
ered with the purple berries make the 
plant conspicuous, and it is a pretty thing 
till near Christmas. Why the botanists 
give as a common name for it the absuid 
title of “French mulberry” it is hard t<> 
understand, for there is no resemblance 
in fruit or plant to a mulberry. I shall 
sow the seed the Tennessee man sends, 
and try to get some plants for trial, as 
if is not found here, so far as I have 
observed. There is said to be a variety 
with white berries, but it must be rare. 
The Progressive strawebrries are still on 
our market, but I have quit growing 
them. 
From a personal inspection of various 
crops it seems that the sweet potato crop 
here this season averages over 300 bus. 
an acre, and thousands of acres. 
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