7)t RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1839 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The sudden change from warn weather 
to a cold wave and a freeze caught the 
Norway maples. Many of the trees had 
eutirely ripened their leaves and shed 
them before the cold wave of early No¬ 
vember. But the Norway maples were 
still full of green leaves, and now they 
stand full of withered leaves still green 
in color, frozen when full of sap. The 
same thing occurred to the kudzu vine, 
and I only wish that it had extended to 
the roots and killed them, for the plant 
is entirely too aggressive in a garden. 
We have got the Nanticoke blackberry 
plants cleared of the dead canes, and in¬ 
tend hereafter to keep them down to a 
decent height, for some of the clumps bad 
become 10 feet high, and the new canes 
tangled through the great mass. They 
are a terrible nuisance until the fruit be¬ 
gins to ripen, and then we forgive them 
till the fruit is off. 
I have quit planting the early tulips 
outside. They are all right for forcing 
in the-greenhouse, but outside, except in 
beds purely for ornament. I want flowers 
with stems enough for cutting. We are 
as fond of cut flowers in the house and 
on the dining table as in the beds. There¬ 
fore. I plant the Darwin tulips because of. 
their more lasting nature than the early 
ones, and for their long stems. Theu as 
T am looked upon as or.e of those from 
whom flowers can always be had for 
church decoration. I must have beds to 
cut from to avoid spoiling the ornamental 
beds. One of the old-fashioned Fall ana 
Winter flowering pot plants is now get¬ 
ting ready to make ir *. >wers later, as the 
green buds are peeping. This is Daphne 
odoratu. It is on< of the easiest plants 
grown, and i... flowers are wonderfully 
sweet. It stands almost any treatment 
short <». freezing, and is in no hurry about 
changing to a larger pot so long as sup¬ 
plied when making new growth with some 
liquid manure. 
I’ansies from seed sown in July or Au¬ 
gust should now be in the cold frame if 
you want the earliest flowers. I usually 
set two or three sashes, and also make a 
bed i-n the open ground. The frame gives 
flowers before the outside bed begins fresh 
growth, and if well-bred seeds are used 
you will have fine flowers before the 
weather gets so hot as to make them 
small. 
Sweet peas I sow either in November 
or January. I make a trench a foot 
deep, put in plenty of old. rotten manure 
and some acid phosphate, cover with soil 
and plant the seed and cover two inches. 
Then in Spring the soil is worked to them 
as they grow till level. We must get 
them early or we fail to get a good bloom. 
But I have never seen any difference in 
earliness between the late Fall-sown and 
the January-sown as regards earliness 
For the earliest I always get the seed 
varieties grown for greenhouse forcing, 
for they are earlier outdoors. Then a 
good mixture of the Spencer varieties is 
cheaper, and just as good, but a little 
later. 
We now make cuttings of grapes from 
this season’s wood, tie them in bundles 
and bury them upside down till Spring, 
and then set iu rows for rooting. I do 
not know why. but there are some sorts 
of grapes that are very slow to root t 
the. cuttings are not buried upside down 
in Winter. Delaware especially. 
The same treatment gives good success 
with cuttings of most of the flowering 
shrubbery and figs. I buried my fig cut 
tings November 2*2. The branches of a 
tig tree buried iu the ground may gel 
frozen through and through and below 
them, but no harm will be done: but if 
the same branches are exposed to the air 
the same temperature will kill them. I 
have often buried fig bushes with the 
nascent figs for the Spring crop on them, 
and then carried the young tigs; through 
IN to 29 degree below zero and ripened 
them the next Spring, the earth absorbing 
the frost so gradually that the tissues of 
the wood are unharmed. Nothing to 
scorch the spinach yet. but it is evident 
that I shall have to sow more seed in 
March unless the Winter is very mild, for 
the late Fall-sown spinach is too large, 
and will be damaged more than young 
plants. Parsnips sown first of .Tune are 
tine. Earlier-«owu parsnips gathered 
cores, and are overgrown. The Jline- 
sow u ones are tender all through. Mv 
salsify was sown at same time, and is fine. 
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