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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
With tho coming of sunshine, the Irish 
potatoes, which looked so slim and drawn 
in the constant rains of August, have 
taken on new life. The plot in my garden 
from which the early crop was dug the 
last of June, promises to make a larger 
crop than the early one. Assuming that 
the rains had washed away a good deal 
of the available plant food, I gave them a 
top-dressing of commercial fertilizer, leav¬ 
ing out one row to test the effect of this 
application. This is September 28. and 
if frost holds off' as it did last year, till 
November 1!), the Irish potatoes have a 
good while to grow yet, for the tops are 
green and flourishing. But we usually 
expect frost about October 20. and occa¬ 
sionally it arrives the middle of the 
month. 
The sweet potato crop will be shorter 
than last year. Rather a small area was 
planted in the Spring because of the 
scarcity of plants, though this was made 
up by an extra planting of cuttings in 
July, which will make marketable pota¬ 
toes. Rut the season was entirely too 
wet for sweet potatoes. In my fertile 
garden soil they have made a tremendous 
growth of vines, but small and few pota¬ 
toes. 
I shall have to grub out my entire plot 
of raspberries, because of the kudzu which 
sneaked in there, and which I thought I 
had grubbed out last Spring. This Sum¬ 
mer it has simply smothered the whole 
plot. Some have asked me to send the 
plants I grub out to them, hut they do 
not know kudzu. and I will not inflict it 
on anyone. I shall try to destroy all I 
have and get rid of it.' It will doubtless 
be valuable as pasturage on waste rocky 
land that cannot be brought into cultiva¬ 
tion. Rut it should never have a place 
anywhere about a garden, for it will 
surely creep in when you are not watch¬ 
ing. 
A week ago I feared that the spinach 
sown in September would hardly get 
strong enough to winter well. But the 
hot spell and rain struck us. and the way 
that spinach has grown is wonderful. 
Now it looks like late Fall cutting. And 
the salsify and parsnips have taken the 
notion that it is time for them to get a 
stir on them. The last of the corn is 
gone, but the string beans are still with 
us, and the Dutch Caseknife beans are 
preparing a store for the Winter. We 
can get more out of these than we can 
from the navy beans in this climate, and 
we think them just as good. Then. too. 
we have quantities of the ripe beans of 
the small Limas, and these, too, are fine 
for Winter use. 
Therefore, with lots of onions, parsnips, 
salsify, turnips and potatoes, with the 
canned stuff', we can bid defiance to the 
grocery man. We have to buy our milk 
and butter, and the butter tastes very 
golden at 7.1 cents a pound. The milk is 
excellent and direct from the farm, so 
that while price is up I know that the 
dairyman is hardly making as much as 
he did when milk was sold for six cents 
a quart. 
The late tomatoes seem likely all to 
ripen and leave us none to wrap in paper 
and put in the cellar green. One curious 
fact is that the early tomatoes from seed 
sown in February, and the plants trained 
to single stems, not only gave us the early 
crop. but. are still making fruit after the 
second crop lias played out on the ground, 
and the third sowing of seed is making 
ripe fruit. It certainly pays to train the 
tomatoes off the ground. w. f. massey. 
Winter Protection for Maine Peach Trees 
The price of peaches is so high that 
farmers cannot afford to buy them here, 
ami we cannot raise them. What are the 
chances of raising a few by laying down 
the trees Winters, or wrapping them? 
\\ hat time in Spring should they he un¬ 
wrapped? ' j. n. 
York Co., Me. 
There is no doubt that it is possible to 
keep trees alive by laying them down 
\\ inters, but results can never be satis¬ 
factory from a business standpoint. 
Maine climate it. not congenial to peach 
culture. I have found that they will 
stand 20 below here, where 15 is the limit 
elsewhere, but we call that mild, and 
often see the mercury register .‘10 or bet¬ 
ter. Jf one wishes to play with peaches 
here is a good chance, but it cannot be 
considered safe. I spent considerable 
time investigating the growing of plums 
m New Brunswick years ago. where the 
trees were laid down each Fall and 
staked, and while a few good crops were 
obtained it _ was not a promising propo¬ 
sition. It is a fact that nature is won¬ 
derfully responsive, but it is equally true 
that she is also rebellious, and for per¬ 
manent results one must conform to soil 
and climatic conditions. It does not pay 
lo tight nature; therefore I would advise 
the growing of other valuable crops, such 
as pears, plums, quinces and small fruits, 
where a crop is reasonably certain and a 
market at hand. I find I can expect 
heavy crop of plums every two years, and 
by cutting back my trees yearly a fair 
crop every year when the conditions are 
favorable at blossoming time. The same 
is true with pears and quinces, certainly 
with strawberries, raspberries and goose¬ 
berries, so that oue can easily exchange 
these for poaches, and realize more than 
would be possible by attempting a peach 
crop by laying down the trees. 
G. M. TWITCIIELL. 
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