Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1373 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Ligustrum lucidnm, wherever it is 
hardy enough, will make far better hedges 
than L. ovalifolium or California privet, 
so commonly used. It is as evergreen as 
the common holly and is a dwarf growth, 
KC) that it will never run out of bounds 
as the California privet does. I had 
a single plant in North Carolina which 
in 15 years never got over live feet high 
when allowed to make its full natural 
growth. I j. Japonicum I have seen in 
the Botanic Garden at Washington, and 
this, too, is evergreen. Last Winter 
my hedge of the Amoor River privet 
lost many of its leaves, and in the Winter 
of 1917-18, the hardest one here in fifty 
years, it lost all. My single plant of 
L lucidnm did not lose a leaf last Win¬ 
ter, but it was badly nipped in the Win¬ 
ter of 1917-18. Hence I hardly think 
that it would be hardy north of Phil¬ 
adelphia. 
Now that the Chinese trumpet flower 
has passed out of bloom the gayest shrub¬ 
bery is a bunch of the Meehan Marvel 
mallows. There are a number of shades 
from deep carmine to pink and white, and 
in the morning they are the gayest things 
about, for they are covered with the big 
blooms, some as large as a dinner plate. 
In cloudy days they stay open most of 
the day, but in sunny weather the great 
flowers close up by noon. And the beds 
of Salvia splendens now completely hide 
the leaves with a mass of scarlet. The 
mature spikes of bloom are cut out, so 
as to keep the fresh ones coming on to 
keep up the display till frost. 
I have a curious freak in a seedling 
Canna from King Humbert. The first 
spike of bloom was golden yellow spotted 
with red, flowers fully six inches in 
diameter. The supplementary spike on 
the same stem is all solid scarlet like 
King Humbert. 
The Nanticoke blackberries have been 
in use for a week, and as usual their 
goodness atones for the savage thorns 
and immense canes. They will run till 
September. All other blackberries dis¬ 
appeared the middle of July. It is a pity 
that so fine a berry cannot be used by 
the commercial growers. It is soft as 
soon as ripe. 
My jobbing gardener, who works in 
my garden when he cannot get work 
elsewhere, said, “You planted the wrong 
late potatoes. Your neighbors’ potatoes 
are up nice, and yours are not up.” I 
suggested that he wait till the harvest, 
for thfe neighbors planted a lot of shriv¬ 
eled potatoes already sprouted, and had 
been sprouting all Summer. Mine came 
out of cold storage and had not sprouted. 
Now (Aug. 7) my potatoes are not only 
lip, but are beating the potatoes that 
came up earlier, because of their greater 
vigor from the abundant food in the un¬ 
sprouted potatoes. In idauting late 
Irish potatoes it does not pay to use old 
shriveled seed, as in everything apper¬ 
taining to the garden only the best pays. 
In the start of the cucumber crop the 
prices indicated a profitable crop, and I 
so reported in The R. N.-Y. But the 
market suddenly slumped, and the result 
is that the cucumber crop was not a 
profitable one. Now the cantaloupes are 
going off. Yesterday afternoon the wagons 
Were driving up to the auction block, and 
it was interesting to note the value of 
careful picking and packing. All were 
in the 45 crates. One wagon drove 
up and its contents sold for $3.50 a 
crate. The next wagon were just as good 
melons, had the grower not been in too 
great a hurry and gathered too many 
green melons. His load brought $2.80. 
In my own garden I find that the can¬ 
taloupes are not as sweet as last year, 
probably because of more rain. 
Spiraea Bumaldavar, Anthony Waterer 
is now making its second bloom, the first 
flowers having been closely cut off after 
fading, its pretty carmine flowers make 
an interesting spot amid the flowerless 
plants around. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
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ago after a courtship which lasted 50 
jours. Hub: “I suppose the poor old 
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