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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
November 10. and the mercury stand¬ 
ing at 02 degrees at sunrise. But it has 
become cloudy, and the wind northeast, 
and we may expect some nasty weather 
soon. The Dahlias have simply bloomed 
their whole crop of flowers and quit. 
We have had this week a general con¬ 
vention of all the farmers’ organizations 
of Maryland, and our town is full of 
farmers from all parts of the State. It 
is rather gratifying to have thenf take 
my hand and say that they read what I 
write in The R. N.-Y., and there seems 
to lie a host of RURAL readers ill Mary¬ 
land. The organizations represented are 
the State Agricultural Society, the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, the Vegetable Growers’ 
Association, the State Dairymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation, the State Sheep Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation and the State Crop Improvement 
Association. And they are here by the 
thousands. The great drill floor of the 
armory is occupied by a community fair, 
and the exhibits are wonderfully numer¬ 
ous and of unusually fine quality. The 
monster pumpkins are here, of course. 
The fruit exhibit, especially the apples, is 
of unusual quality for any section, and. 
thanks to the sunny Fall, the color of 
the apples is unusual. Then the show of 
Irish and sweet potatoes is extraordinary. 
Unfortunately many growers imagine 
that bigness will rate high on the score 
card, and they show immense and un¬ 
marketable potatoes. 
Then the show of corn ears is large, 
and the judges put the blue and red on 
the ears that come nearest to the score 
card requirements, and we only learn 
that one man has picked the prettiest 
ears, while there may be a dozen samples 
that will make more corn an acre if used 
for seed than the blue ribbon ears. Is 
it not about time that we have corn 
shows that will teach -us something of 
value? Something that will show us the 
type of plant on which the winning ear 
grew and something to show the yield 
per acre of each sample exhibited? What 
farmers need to know is the probable 
number of bushels one can expect under 
nmmal conditions from seed corn shown. 
If it can be shown that the best ears by 
the score card cau be depeuded on to 
make the best crop, all right, and if the 
ears with a big butt and tapering to the 
end with a snout at the tip are best, let 
us find out. But let us stop giving pre¬ 
miums for shape of ears. The theatre 
was well filled in the morning hours with 
a general assembly and a variety of 
speeches. The afternoons were spent in 
meets of each organization in various 
rooms in different sections of the city, 
and a popular address in the theatre at 
night. The Governor and others spoke, 
but I do not usually put much stress on 
addresses of the politicians and lawyers 
to assemblies of farmers. Most of them 
will boast that they were horn on a farm, 
but they backslid into lawyers and politi¬ 
cians. and the farmers addressed seldom 
pay mueh attention to any advice they 
give. Armistice Day comes in clouds and 
rain, a regular northeaster, and when it 
clears away we shall probably have sharp 
frost, which is now overdue. 
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Care of Red Raspberries 
Last Spring I bought some red rasp¬ 
berries, and as T never grew auy before I 
did not cut them back, but left them 
about 2% ft. high when I set them out. 
I set them in what I had used for a hen- 
yard for six years, and the ground was 
very rich. This year they made a great 
growth of long, slender bushes, most of 
which lay on the ground. Would it be 
better to cut them all back near the 
ground this Fall? If so. how far. or 
rather, how close to the ground? I set 
these plants in rows 3 ft. apart, the 
bushes 2 ft. apart in the rows. Is that 
all right for hand cultivation? My black¬ 
berries were rows 5 ft. apart. 3 ft. apart 
in rows. v. E. S. 
Oneonta. N. Y. 
The fruit of red raspberries is borne 
on the second-year wood. That is. the 
canes produced this season will produce 
fruit next season. If you should cut all 
the caues away, you would not get any 
fruit next year, only another growth of 
canes. We set the red raspberries 4 ft. 
apart in rows 5 ft. apart. Blackberries 
are set 6x0 or at times 5x5 ft. They ueed 
this amount of space for best development. 
After fruiting the old caues should be re¬ 
moved and by cultivating cleanly, the 
block can be kept profitable for a number 
of years. t. ii. t. 
English Ivy in the North 
I would like to say to G. W. G. that 
if he wants to make a big showing of 
English ivy in the North, the thing to do 
is to let it run flat on the ground and 
train it for borders to garden beds. It 
is rather too tender to train over walls 
unless one is located south of New York 
State. I first saw it so handled at the 
Hotel Del Monte, in Monterey. Cal., and 
I found <m treating it the same way that 
it was as much at home with me as it 
was there. I have collected it from Cape 
Cod to San Diego. Cal., finding that there 
are several varieties of it. Nothing could 
be prettier for a long, straight border, and 
nothing will grow more freely. I have 
one near 100 feet long, just coining into 
growth after having been moved. In sec¬ 
tions like this, where evergreen box is uot 
hardy, the ivy is a great boon for borders 
alone. I wonder that nobody iu this part 
of the country has made a trial of it. 
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