The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1347 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Succession planting is just now at a 
standstill till room can be made for the 
late cabbages by clearing out the early 
corn now nearly stripped, for every spot 
in the garden has something growing on 
it. Space is wanted for late, cabbage 
plants, for the Fall spinach, and then for 
turnips. I often wonder if the gardeners 
North are bothered as we are at this time 
of the year with crab grass. With the 
abundance of rain we are now having, 
the growth of the crab grass is amazing 
The tomato fields after cultivation cease's 
soon get enveloped with this grass, and 
often completely hide the tomato plants. 
On fertile soil I have seen it nearly waist 
high, and a good crop of hay cut from it. 
In fact, at the right stage it is far better 
hay than the baled Timothy sent South, 
much of which seems to have been 
thrashed for seed. Still, in a well-kept 
garden we do not care to make hay, and 
we hoe out. the crab grass, but if it is not 
raked out it will soon root, in a few days 
and be growing faster than ever. 
Just now the brightest spot in the 
shrubbery is where the Bignonia grandi- 
florn is trained to the corner of the porch, 
and allowed to spread out over the snow¬ 
ball bush, now bare of flowers. This Chi¬ 
nese trumpet flower makes immense clus¬ 
ters of great orange-colored flowers at the 
end of the season’s shoots. The prettiest 
way to grow it is trained to a post six 
or eight feet high, and then allowed to 
make a weeping tree-like growth, hung 
with its great clusters of bloom. 
My home is on an unfinished street 
extension. The street is finished to the 
corner opposite mine. I put down the 
concrete sidewalks at my own expense, 
and run the lawn mower to the middle of 
the street outside the sidewalk, so that 
I have a pretty lawn 20 feet wide and 
115 feet long, and it is curious to note 
how all the vehicles that use this part 
of the street stick to a single track on 
the opposite side and avoid my grass. A 
few days ago a man stopped on the op¬ 
posite side of the street with a big wagon, 
unhitched his mules and hitched them to 
cultivators to work a vacant lot in corn. 
After completing the job he loaded up 
his cultivators and hitched his mules and 
drove up to an open lot to turn his wagon 
and avoid turning on my grass. People 
as a rule always appreciate anyone’s ef¬ 
fort to beautify a street. Hence I do not 
care how long the city authorities are in 
finishing the street, for the paved street 
borders one side of my lot. and there is no 
need driving on the lawn. There is more 
grass inside the walk, and a large lawn 
on the side street, with a hedge of Amoor 
River privet inside the sidewalk, and the 
shrubbery clusters all around the base 
of the house for nearly 100 feet. At 
one end of the shrubbery border there is 
a big clump of Manetti rose bush, where 
a tender Tea rose was killed in the hard 
Winter of 1017-18. I let it grow because 
the foliage is pretty, and its single pink 
flowers are not ugly, but have to keep 
cutting out the suckers, for it will spread 
fast if let alone. And 'that kuilzii vine in 
the back yard! I wish that someone 
who wants to plant it would come and 
grub out the whole mess, for it is a con¬ 
stant fight to keep it from taking posses¬ 
sion of the whole place. I shall endeavor 
to destroy it, as I have tired of fighting it. 
As I wrote the last few words notice 
came that someone wanted to see me. I 
found a big touring ear with a farmer 
and his wife and three children from Os¬ 
wego, N. Y., on a tour through the Pen¬ 
insula, looking for a good location in a 
milder climate. They carried a complete 
camping outfit, aud have been camping 
on the road. They said that they are 
readers of The R. N.-Y., and were in¬ 
terested in the “Notes from a Maryland 
Garden,” and stopped to see the garden. 
I think they were glad to accept an invi¬ 
tation to use our bathroom and stay for 
supper. They saw the garden, and be¬ 
fore sunset were on their way over the 
concrete road' to the seashore. I gave 
them all the information in my power 
that might help them in making a selec¬ 
tion for a new home. Such visitors ap¬ 
preciate the whole truth about lands, sucii 
as they can never get from a real estate 
agent, for the agent, no matter how hon¬ 
est he tries to be, is human, aud will tell 
l he advantages of a place and leave out 
the disadvantages. w. F. massey. 
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An Olivet Orchard Plow also is made especially 
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