<m RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1855 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Winter Sunsiiixk. —One great advan¬ 
tage we have here over the North, espe¬ 
cially for gardening under glass, is the 
abounding sunshine in Winter. This 
morning (Dec. 2) the mercury stood at 
20 above at sunrise, but with a cloudless 
sky the noou temperature on a south 
porch was 70 degrees, and well into the 
00s on the north side. Sunshine counts 
for far more than fire heat in the growing 
of plants, and not merely as a saving of 
coal. This dark weather is the greatest 
of the impediments which the greenhouse 
vegetable growers in the lake shore region 
have to contend with, and while we are 
nearer than they are to the great Eastern 
markets our people would have the fur¬ 
ther advantage of a milder Winter cli¬ 
mate and more .sunshine. And yet it is 
hard for our truck farmers to under¬ 
stand the advantage that intensive work 
under glass would have here. The or¬ 
dinary truck grower knows well how to 
count the cost and profits by the acre, but 
it has not occurred to him to garden by 
the square foot. 
Climate and Greenhouse Work.— 
The fact is that intensive gardening under 
glass is always found under bad climate 
conditions rather than mild locations. In 
unfavorable climates men rise to the diffi¬ 
culties and overcome them. The wretched 
Winter climate of Northern Ohio has been 
the means of developing an army of 
skilled men in Winter vegetable forcing, 
while in sections where lettuce plants can 
be wintered'over outside or headed in sim¬ 
ple cold frames the growers seem to stop 
there and never realize what could be 
done with heated greenhouses in the pro¬ 
duction of Winter vegetables of a more 
tender character. 
Contrasted Conditions. —In North¬ 
ern Ohio they have great difficulty in pro¬ 
ducing the midwinter crop of tomatoes 
and cucumbers, and hence devote the 
early Winter to the more hardy lettuce, 
and grow “cukes” avid tomatoes in the 
Spring and up into .Tune, while down here 
the January and February crop of to¬ 
matoes can be easily produced, with cu¬ 
cumbers, too, for I have done both. Some 
day this wonderful peninsula lying be¬ 
tween the salt sea and the salt bays will 
rise to its opportunities. Even in the 
northern part of the Eastern Shore of 
Maryland, where I was growing early 
tomatoes for the Baltimore market 40 
years ago, I could get them into market 
two weeks ahead of the growers in the 
same latitude on the western side of the 
Chesapeake. Two weeks really gave me 
control of the market for a while. Then 
I cut lettuce from cold frames there in 
midwinter, when on the western side of 
the bay they were simply trying to keep 
the plants dormant for Spring heading. 
Intensive Gardening. —The future 
will see less of big field trucking here and 
more of the use of cold frames and green¬ 
houses and intensive gardening of all 
sorts. Several readers, of The li. N.-Y. 
have written me about this section as a 
favorable place for market gardening, and 
this is intended mainly to answer their 
queries. There seem to be successions 
of thermal lines on this peninsula. The 
upper end has a climate very like that of 
Philadelphia, though mild enough in Kent 
County for crape myrtles to thrive and 
grow iuto tree-like form. Then south of 
Dover, Del., there is a decided increase in 
the mildness of Winter, with another 
change about the lower end of Delaware. 
And yet here kale and spinach will often 
get scorched in Winter, and once I have 
had them largely killed. But that will 
occur once in a lifetime. Then, striking 
the Virginia line only 20 miles south, we 
find spinach and kale green and market¬ 
able all Winter, and so on down till the 
end of the cape finds a section with a cli¬ 
mate milder in Winter than sections in 
the interior of the country 400 or 500 
miles south, the influence of the great 
unfrozen salt ocean. In open-air cultiva¬ 
tion it would be hard to excel the men 
who are now cultivating the two Virginia 
counties, but once get the forcing idea 
started, the men there are bright enough 
to catch the method and to develop it fur¬ 
ther. w. F. MASSEY. 
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