The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
975 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
I can fully indorse what is said on 
page 60 in regard to the corn ear-worm, 
llere every car i« attacked every season. 
It is very rare to find an ear without a 
worm. I have been afraid to dust with 
a blow-gun for fear that the pollination 
would be affected. But we need not look 
for the eggs; they will surely be there, 
and I apply a mixture, one part calcium 
phosphate and two parts of air-slaked 
lime, in a pinch right at the end of the 
husk, and avoid covering most of the 
stigmatic surface. This dust is the most 
effective destroyer of all biting insects. 
I have not tried it on the rose chafers, 
but intend to do so this season in com¬ 
parison with the now rose-bug remedy 
called Melrosine. 
Common names for plants are often 
troublesome, for the same name is giveu 
to different plants in various sections. 
II ere the name bittersweet is given to 
Solatium Dulcamara, also called climb¬ 
ing nightshade. This is a plant similar 
to tomato and bearing clusters of small 
red berries, like currants. It is said to 
be poisonous, but I doubt it. And yet 
the Celastrus scandens, a woody vine, is 
also called bittersweet. 
My opinion is that nitrate of soda used 
in a spray would be likely to do harm to 
green foliage. I never use nitrate of 
soda in direct contact with green plants. 
With green onions, spinach and aspara¬ 
gus I suppose that we are getting some of 
the vitamines. and as we drink lots of 
whole milk I suppose that even if we are 
old we need these things, and our physical 
strength makes us certain that green stuff 
and milk are as good for old folks as for 
the young. We are watching the peas 
and early potatoes. The peas should be 
making pods by this time, but they 
were planted later than usual. Our Irish 
potatoes show plainly that they are 
Northern seed, for the late crop grown 
here will' make single stout stems from 
the terminal buds; but tbe Northern po¬ 
tatoes. dug earlier and longer in the eel- 
lar. make sprouts, and these are rubbed 
off. Then when they are planted they 
grow from lateral buds and make a bunch 
of shoots. I had got tired of the Cobbler 
and sent North and bought some of the 
Bovee to plant. I have a beautiful stand, 
but every hill comes with several stems. 
They have had sprouts rubbed off in the 
cellar or storage house. One superiority 
of our Southern late-crop seed is that they 
have lost no food and retain the full 
vitality of the terminal bud, and will out- 
yield the Northern seed, because of su¬ 
perior vitality. But the Northern seed 
will make an earlier crop. 
T had a letter a few days ago from 
an old student, who thanked me for the 
influence on his life of the course at an 
agricultural college. ITe drifted away 
from the farm and is president of a bank 
in a town where there are two other 
hanks, each with larger capital than his. 
He says that what he learned in his col¬ 
lege course has enabled him to advise and 
help the farmers, and they patronize his 
bank in preference to the others, because 
they can bring their farm troubles there 
and get advice. lie was an excellent 
student, and made use of what he learned. 
Tour “scenery farmer” would better take 
even a short course in a college, as a col¬ 
lege education in agriculture will make 
even a bank president a farm doctor. I 
know a clergyman who was one of mv 
students. lie went to a theological insti¬ 
tute after graduation, and is serving 
country parishes. Such a preacher can 
be of immense help in a rural community. 
The majority of the preachers and priests 
would he far more useful hud they grad¬ 
uated in agriculture before they took 
their theological course, for most of them 
have to come in contact with farmers, and 
their ministrations would be far more ef¬ 
fective if they knew what the farmers 
want to know. 
Killing frost here this morning (May 
J 1 ' All tender stuff damaged or killed. 
I urued water on my garden and think 
I have saved the corn and Irish potatoes, 
hut the leaves of the potatoes are 
scorched. Beaus dead. 
Salisbury, Md. w. F. MASSEY. 
Dahlias Not Blooming 
I am sure that E. J. \V. (page 
•lues not live in Western New York, 
would know why the Dahlia doe 
bloom any more in this section, but 
I- is a resident of Rochester, ai 
nught to know why he gets no flowi 
nave not heard from that territoi 
reetlv. but the tarnished plant-bug 
be there ns well us in Buffalo. I h 
g.iidoii within MO miles or so of Roc 
■ hat is infested with the same pest, 
g"t no Dahlias of account. East Su 
i Plflnted most of my Dahlias whei 
lewis could run under them, and obi 
•linte a good many (lowers. I thin 
young chickens must have eaten tl 
seels It is a good many years since 
tins have bloomed at all well with ui 
we know that they never will agai 
i m , lg , ls mi(lpr control. So far 
ti i r 1 V‘ specialists, f.et anyone 
a al ias do not bloom examine the f( 
• id he will find a few (they are * 
m morons) small, mottled, dark ii 
H... l >. WI . ug ca , ses tapering to a pol 
.. 1 a s beetles do not—and h 
J h,. 1,1(1 ^ the buds of the plants 
, 'T n ¥ ,K >t';d look. These bug 
1 . lL C i al t udulas - tobaccos, asters 
ii •* ’ kll L,? rp u °t able to prevent 
Idoouung. This season I mean to t 
k kV 1 ^ With kpr *«ene oil in i 
Id ii “ ms ects into it. Mavbe 
t,Un thp[U «ut in that way. j. y 
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