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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
We have the advantage of our North¬ 
ern friends’ in getting the bloom on beds 
| of Salvia splendens for a longer period. 
! Usually the scarlet sage begins to bloom 
j the first week in June, and is a blaze of 
bloom till frost. This Spring they did 
not show bloom till .Tune 20. and are now 
not yet in full beauty. I have for years 
been saving seed from the earliest blooms, 
and from dwarf bushy plants, and I be¬ 
lieve that my Salvias are unequaled when 
I see the long-legged plants in other peo¬ 
ple’s beds around me. It is great- fun 
breeding something better than others 
have. 
We need to excel in something, for we 
cannot make beds of the zonal geraniums 
that bed out so beautifully in the North. 
In our hot. sandy soil the geraniums sim¬ 
ply drop their leaves and bloom little, 
only living in a discreditable condition. 
So we bed the Salvia and the everbloom- 
ing Begonias and Cannas. and we put our 
Caunas against anyone’s else. I have 
the best of the varieties in the catalogues 
and hundreds of my own seedlings an¬ 
nually. Then in the Fall any seedlings 
that are of no special merit are left out 
to die. Sometimes when the Winter is 
mild they do not die, and shoot into 
growth where not wanted. 
I had this Spring a sample of the need 
for a dormant season to plants. In a 
row of seedling Caunas last Fall was 
one with promising foliage, which had not 
bloomed. I feared that it had not made 
a rhizome strong enough to winter dry, 
so I potted it and kept it growing all 
Winter. This Spring is was planted out 
aloug with the dry rhizomes of the best 
seedlings, and though the top was over 
a foot high, it has not seemed to have the 
vigor of the Winter rest, for the dry roots 
have beaten it in growth and are now 
(June 24) making flower buds. So far 
as bronze foliage is concerned, I do not 
think we can get more striking foliage 
than that of King Humbert, but what I 
am trying for is a plant with King Hum¬ 
bert foliage and different colored flowers 
of similar size, and held above the foliage 
as well as King Humbert. The Yellow 
King Humbert is a poor tiling, and why 
named King Humbert it is hard to say. 
for it has very common green foliage, not 
at all striking, and fairly good flowers of 
orange color, spotted and splashed with 
red. If anyone buys the so-called Yellow 
Kiug Humbert expecting to find plant or 
bloom at all resembling the King Hum¬ 
bert. he will be disappointed. 
Fiery Cross Cauna, a seedling from 
Firebird, is no advance on Firebird. It 
makes a longer head of bloom, with flow¬ 
ers very like Firebird, but the flower head 
is borne on a stalk too slender to hold it 
erect, and it hangs over, and that spoils 
any Canna. In pink Cannas, llungaria ! 
leads, but there is a multitude of fine pink 
Caunas, such as Mrs. Cotvard, Mrs. Wil¬ 
son and others. 
Panama, as 1 have it. differs from the 
descriptions in the catalogue. What I 
have as Panama is bright piuk with a 
canary-colored border, somewhat similar 
to Venus, but a tall plant with flower 
head thrown well above the foliage. I 
keep it marked Panama for want of a 
better name, but Panama, if the cata¬ 
logues are right, is chestnut red. Mine is 
very handsome, however, and more like 
City of Portland. 
The finest white yet is Eureka, but I 
hope yet. to beat it. A neighbor who is a 
Dahlia specialist, and has produced many | 
of the finest sorts now catalogued, ba¬ 
the same experience that I have. People 
want to buy liis seedlings when they see 
them in the field, and people want to buy 
my seedling Caunas. But they are not 
for sale. I am simply trying to produce 
new forms of beauty. w. F. massfy. 
Registering a Farm Name 
Is there any New York State registry 
of the name of my farm which will debar 
unscrupulous outsiders from affixing said 
farm name on the products of their farms 
to mislead the public? Is it a case where 
nu application should be made to the com¬ 
missioner at Washington for a registered 
trade mark? Is this latter mode expen¬ 
sive? H. II. S. 
Our advice is to send to the Commis¬ 
sioner of Patents at Washington and get 
full particulars about a copyright of the 
farm name. Secure such a copyright aud 
have it registered at the county clerk’s 
office. That will give you legal protec¬ 
tion. and ths expense will be small. 
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