The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1853 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
I have been watching: the digging of 
some late potatoes today (November 18), 
and find them few in the hill and small 
in size. The grower of these said that 
he had several acres elsewhere, and he 
had none that will make 100 bushels :ui 
acre. The earlier part of the Summer 
was too wet. and in the Fall the late 
blight struck nearly every field, and of 
course there is some rot. Where the 
blight did not hit there is a fair crop, but 
these plots are few. 
Our first frost, and a sharp, killing 
one, came on the morning of November 
13, when the thermometer registered near¬ 
ly 28 at sunrise. I have heard of lower 
temperatures near by. and ou the Alle¬ 
gheny plateau in the western end of the 
State papers report of temperatures two 
above zero. The spinach is still uu- 
scorched and in the finest shape for the 
table. Parsnips have gotten their true 
sweetness and the salsify has its oyster 
flavor. Rut here we get the finest oy¬ 
sters and fish straight from the ocean by 
auto trucks, and one whose knowledge of 
fresh fish comes from those that have 
been transported in barrels in ice hardly 
knows the real flavor of fresh fish taken 
from the ocean in the early morning and 
delivered here for dinner. 
Recently a reader asked for informa 
tion about the Spokane Beauty apple. I 
had not seen this apple at that time. At 
our recent community fair there were 
specimens shown by the same man who 
got 25c each for a lot shipped. They 
look like overgrown Wolf Rivers. I could 
not ascertain anything about the quality, 
but if the quality goes with the resem¬ 
blance to Wolf River they are probably 
only of value as show fruit. Other ap¬ 
ples of such great size do not carry high 
quality, as shown by the Buff or North 
Caroline, Gloria Mundi and Wolf River. 
Without knowing any more I would place 
the Spokane Beauty in the same class. 
Great size in orchard fruits is seldom ac¬ 
companied by the best, flavor. No one 
would choose a big Kieffer pear before a 
little Seckel. or a Ren Davis apple rather 
than a Lady apple, and yet a well grown 
Ren Davis is a very handsome apple. 
I would like to say to the many who 
are writing to me about a change of loca¬ 
tion. men seeking a mild climate, that it 
is seldom possible for me to advise them 
to come Southward, not knowing the men. 
but knowing that they are usually men of 
limited finances who imagine that they 
can get good land very cheaply here and 
southward. It is true that there are 
lands here and there which can be had for 
little money, but they are usually in such 
condition that no one but a rich man 
could afford to buy and improve them. I 
am not in the real estate business and 
hence do not study the different farms 
that may be for sale, and cannot advise 
in regard to any of them. Rut so far as 
this section is concerned, any land with 
decent buildings and not far from a rail¬ 
road station would be considered cheap at 
8100 an acre, and seldom to be had at 
that. In the best trucking sections of the 
lower end of the Delaware, Maryland, 
Virginia peninsula, land runs from $200 
to $500 an acre. Therefore I would not 
advise a man of small means and limited 
knowledge of farm conditions here to 
move from where he is now making a 
living. w. F. MASSEY. 
Tomato Plants from Leaf Sprouts 
Some have claimed that a cutting from 
a sprout developing from the leaf of the 
tomato will not produce a plant that 
will fruit. Because of this the result of 
such a trial at the Connecticut Agricul¬ 
tural College may be of interest. 
On February 14, 1918, after a plant 
had been rather severely pruned, several 
sprouts were thrown out along the mid¬ 
rib of the leaf. One of these sprouts was 
made into a cutting the same day. This 
bad roots enough to be potted. On March 
26 it was planted ou a raised bench. June 
10 the first ripe fruits were picked. The 
total number of ripe fruits produced by 
the plant was 34, with a total weight of 
170.8 ounces, or 11 5/100 lbs. Several 
tip cuttings were made in December, and 
these averaged 7.6 lbs., 8.7 lbs.. 9.6 lbs. 
and 9.8 lbs., respectively. To be sure, 
these tip cuttings were producing more 
during the Winter months, but the fact 
remains that the cutting from the leaf 
sprout was very productive of a splendid 
quality of fruit. Plants started from 
seeds were growiug at the same time, and 
an average of 10.8 lbs., 8.7 lbs. and 9.6 
lbs. were obtained from these in the same 
time. A. T. STEVENS. 
Connecticut Agricultural College. 
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