7*e RURAL NEW-VORKER 
1031 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
As usual, the Spring-sown spinach is 
playing out. It is a very brief crop, but 
it makes when it runs to seed some or¬ 
ganic matter to turn under, and a good 
warm place to set the eggplants that will 
go out as soon as we. have some warm 
weather But with about two-tliirds of 
Mav gone, we have had little May 
weather. The early tomatoes have lived, 
but have a very pale color and a tough 
look that does not indicate immediate 
progress. The reserve plants that have 
bad the sashes over them during these 
cold nights look far better than the ones 
set out. The weather keeps doing just 
the opposite of the predictions from 
Washington. 
Last Summer I did a great deal of 
crossing in my collection of the large 
flowering Cannas. and I have 25 varieties 
of the newest. I saved a goodly quantity 
of seed. This Spring my little green¬ 
house was crowded, and I had no room 
for the Canna seed, so about the first of 
April, after soaking them three days, I 
sowed them in a long row in the garden. 
When my old gardener was setting the 
stakes for the early tomato plants he set 
a row right alongside the row where the 
Canna seed had been sown, as I had sown 
them myself, and he merely saw that 
something had been sown. He asked me 
if that row of stakes should be pulled 
up. I told him to wait and see. for I 
had little hope that the Canna seed would 
grow under the circumstances, and I had 
sown them rather thickly to try to make 
more certain of a few. But. to my sur¬ 
prise, when we came to set the tomato 
plants we found the Cannas coming up 
very thickly. Many of them showing 
bronze leaves seem to indicate that some 
of the King Humbert crosses on the 
Fiery Cross, and vice versa, were going 
to show up. But the little plants were 
so thick that it was evidently hardly a 
fair show to get well-developed growth. 
Therefore. I am taking the little seedlings 
up and potting them, as I now have room 
in the greenhouse. I have seldom failed 
to get good varieties from seed of the 
improved Cannas; in fact, many as good 
as or better than many over which there 
has been a great deal of boasting, but I 
have never named any, and evei'y Spring 
have given friends plenty of the rhizomes, 
only to find that they generally lose them 
and I have to give them more the next 
Spring. Still, it is a pleasure to make ! 
other people happy, even if some valuable , 
seedlings are wasted. 
Of the named Cannas. I find that 
Five Brand is far more satisfactory than 
its progeny, Fiery Cross, for which I paid 
$2 for a small one-bud piece two years 
ago. Fiery Cross would be fine if it 
would make stalk strong enough to hold 
its great head of flowers erect. But in 
m.v grounds it invariably hangs its head. 
Crossing on the stiff, erect stems of the 
King Humbert may result in something 
better. The Canna called Yellow King 
Humbert is a fairly good golden yellow 
splashed and spotted with yellow. But 
why call it King Humbert when it in no 
way resembles the real King Humbert?. 
The strawberry crop in black muck 
soils has been very badly damaged by the 
freeze of May 7, hut there is a fairly good 
crop on the high grounds. It is claimed 
that apples and peaches are both de¬ 
stroyed. I have not examined any or¬ 
chards, but my garden trees certainly 
have not a peach. The plum trees are 
carrying a fair crop. The scarcity of 
labor is felt by the strawberry growers. 
Last year they got the crops picked for 
two cents a box. This year most of the 
growers are offering three cents, and some 
as high as four cents, and it looks as 
though more would have to pay four 
cents to get help. 
Various prices are being offered for to¬ 
matoes by the eanners. The highest price 
I have noted is $30 a ton. I believe that 
the general average will be about 50 cents 
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