‘D* RURAL NEW.YORKER 
23 / 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
A lady correspondent sent me some 
twigs from her hardy Daphne Cneorum 
in Vermont. I stuck them into*a glass of 
water on my desk and now they are in 
full bloom. This reminds me to say that 
nearly all of our Spring shrubs will 
opeu their ''owe: - ; in water and help cheer 
the dull Winter. Fors.vthia and P.vrus 
Japoniea are especially good, and the 
pussy willlow too will come out nicely 
in a warm room. 
Clippings from the Prairie Farmer de¬ 
scribe the corn show at Galesburg. III., 
showing that the western farmers are 
finding out that Success in corn growing 
does not mean only producing pretty 
ears of a certain type, but the growing 
of corn for corn-bushels an a’cre. They 
made a new score card in which especial 
attention is given to evidences of disease 
or freedom from disease, and over all of 
productiveness in grain. This is a real 
step forward, though the picture of the 
winning corn shows that the type of 
ears of the old score card is adhered to. 
What would add still more value to the 
show is a comparison in the yield be¬ 
tween ears with a snout at the tip and 
those with tips well covered with grain. 
I had a notion .that the ears with a snout 
will beat the covered tips in grain yield 
even if they are not so pretty. Hut tin¬ 
men who are at the head of this new 
movement are great farmers and experi 
enced corn growers, and having broken 
•away partly from the old score card, can 
he trusted to do more still to make a 
corn show of value. 
We have at last had a cold wave. On 
the morning of Jail. 1!>. the thermometer 
scored 14 above zero. Now (Jan. ‘21 ) we 
are back in warm Spring-like weather, 
and no frost last night. We are yet to 
have the first enow on the ground. There 
have been some flakes iu the air. but 
none to show on the ground. And yet 
my son at the Virginia State College. 
Blacksburg, Yu., in the mountain country, 
writes of snow there IS inches deep. 
There is a vast difference between 50 
feet above the sea level and near the 
ocean, and 2,200 feet above the sea level 
iu the interior. Atlanta. 1 .”>00 feet above 
the sea. lias colder weather in dead of 
Winter than we have, but a shorter 
Winter. 
A correspondent wishes to know it 
there is anything new in tomatoes. I 
have ceased to expect any striking ad¬ 
vance in tomatoes. 1 have followed up 
the advance in tomato breeding for more 
than 50 years. Tomatoes have now de¬ 
veloped into two general types, both ol 
the smooth skin and meaty interior, and 
distinguished by color of the skin, either 
scarlet or purplish pink. In these tw> 
types there are differences in earliness 
and so far as I have tested, the earliest 
are in the scarlet type. Of course there 
are differences in size and productive¬ 
ness. The extra large ones like I’onder- 
osa never give as many fruits as smaller 
ones The little cherry and plum-shaped 
tomatoes will always make more fruits 
per plant than the larger ones. Tomatoes 
of fair medium size like Success and 
Stone will make the most satisfactory 
crop of fruit. The Earlianu is the earli¬ 
est tested, and it throws its entire crop 
early and then fails. 'Phis is an advant¬ 
age for the market grower, as it gives a 
chance for succession crop, and brings 
better tomatoes on the market, 1 have 
quit growing the Earliana for home use 
as the Bonny Best and others ol the 
Jewel type are so close behind it and so 
much better. For the earliest 1 use see-1 
of the Bonny Best produced in the Adi* 
rondacks and find they come earlier than 
home-grown seed. 
On the other hand I want home-grown 
Irish potatoes for seed rather than uoi-tli- 
ern seed. They are slower in sprouting 
and a little later than northern seed. But 
they will far outvield the northern seed. 
For home use we can afford to wait a 
week on them. w. k. massky. 
The storm was increasing in violence 
and some of the deck fittings had already 
been swept overboard when the captain 
decided to send up a signal of distress. 
But hardly had the rocket burst over the 
shin when a solemn-faced passenger 
stepped on to the bridge. “Captain." 
he said. "I’d be the last man on earth to 
cast a damper on any man. but it seems 
to me that this is no time for letting off 
fireworks.”—New York Globe, 
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