RURAL NEW.YORKER 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Christmas has passed and we are hav¬ 
ing cloudy weather aud much rain. A 
Maine correspondent, a potato grower in 
Aroostook, writes of having sleighing 
since November 17. and now more snow 
12 inches deep, making rather too much 
of “a good thing.” Doubtless snow is a 
useful thing where it stays and packs 
down and makes it possible to travel with 
sleighs. But down here we regard it as 
a nuisance, and are glad when the Win¬ 
ter passes with hardly any snow, for a 
fall of snow of any amount soon makes 
slush and miserable walking. 
A letter from a Rural New-Yorker 
reader, who claims that he enjoys reading 
what I write, asks where the old Lennig 
White and the Triomphe de Gand straw¬ 
berry can be had. This takes me back 
to the old strawberry days when Mr. 
Knox on his farm on Monongahela 
Heights, opposite Pittsburgh, grew the 
Triomphe de Gand strawberry and grape¬ 
vines. I visited his place in March, 
1865. in the interest of a large canning 
establishment in Maryland which wanted 
to sell canned peaches and plant grape¬ 
vines. I traded Mr. Knox $2,000 worth 
of peaches for grapevines and good plants, 
while he made a good thing of the peaches 
in the great oil boom then at its height 
in Pennsylvania. 
On the Knox farm everything was 
blackened by the smoke of the city. Even 
the strawberry leaves caught the soot. 
In one section I noticed a large number 
of bushes and remarked that the currant 
bushes seemed to thrive finely in his heavy 
clay soil. “Currant bushes,” he said, 
“why that is my peach orchard.” Com¬ 
ing from the Eastern shore of Maryland 
in the height of the rage for peach-grow¬ 
ing. I told him he must excuse my laugh¬ 
ing at the little black bushes he called 
peach trees. But Knox did grow tine 
strawberries from the Triomphe de Gand 
plants, which seemed to suit his heavy 
soil, but few others had any success with 
them, aud these old European varieties 
have passed out in this country like the 
old efforts to grow the Vinifera grapes 
in the East. I doubt that a single Len¬ 
nig White or Triomphe de Gand exists 
today in the United States. 
The coming Spring I propose to keep 
the grapevines well-dusted with arsenate 
of calcium mixed one-half with air- 
slaked lime. The caustic character of this 
dust will aid the poison in its work. 1 
tried it last Spring on some rose bushes 
and it killed the rose bugs, and I believe 
I would have saved my grapes had I 
dusted them instead, the same as the rose 
bushes. In my experience it is the most 
quickly effective arsenate of any. We 
are thankful that we have rain instead 
of snow, and can dig the parsnips and 
salsify easily from the soft ground. The 
Northern people are welcome to the 
sleighing. We prefer the comfortable 
automobile. Years ago. up the hills of 
Northwestern Maryland, a friend invited 
me to a sleigh ride behind a fast trotter. 
It was cold, and that horse dashed snow¬ 
balls in my face from his heels. I told 
my friend he might call that fun; it 
seemed to me that the only one enjoying 
the fun was the horse, and I would rather 
go back to town. I have ridden in a 
sleigh four times in my 81 years, and will 
be happier never to get in one again. 
Some people here keep sleighs and have a 
chance to use them about once in three 
years. 
Last Summer my oldest peach tree be¬ 
gan to take on the switchy growth indi 
eating yellows. I am now burning peach 
tree wood, for I have other younger and 
perfectly healthy trees, and can take no 
risk in such a case. The tree was Craw¬ 
ford Late, a variety of great excellence, 
but there is nothing to gain bv trying to 
save a diseased tree while other trees are 
endangered by it. 
F. E. Gladwin is right in his directions 
for grafting a grapevine. I would merely 
suggest that the cuttings to be used as 
scions in the Spring should be cut in 
November, tied in bundles and buried 
in Winter upside down. The extraordi¬ 
nary growth of a cane from a graft on an 
old root is doubtless helped by the scion 
putting out roots of its own when well 
mounded. 
Winter still holds off, though this is 
December 17. We had a temperature of 
28 degrees for a few hours the morning 
of November 13, and that low only a 
little while in the morning. But I sup¬ 
pose that after the sun apparently moves 
north we will as usual get some freezing 
weather. 
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