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The Garden 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
February is nearly gone, and still gives 
no sign of anything up its .sleeve, for only 
occasionally is the sunrise temperature 
below the freezing point. For many years 
I have noticed that the final effort of 
Winter usually comes about the 15th to 
17th of February, and that after that the 
weather gradually merges iuto real 
Spring. I have also noted that after a 
mild W inter. March is apt to give us a 
hard knock. In North Carolina the Win¬ 
ter of 1804 was mild and the weather 
turned warm the latter part of February, 
and in March we had regular Summer 
weather, several times reaching DO de¬ 
grees. Everything hurst forth into growth 
and bloom. Red clover bloomed and grape¬ 
vines pushed long shoots. Then on the 
morning of the 20th mercury dropped at 
Raleigh to 21 degrees above zero. In the 
upper part of the State it was still lower. 
Th destruction was fearful. Hence I 
dread March after a mild Winter. 
The Bonny Best tomato plants are now 
pushing up. and as soon as large enough 
to handle will he transplanted to other 
flats, set deeper and given more room. 
This I do when the plants are in the seed 
leaf, for there is always risk of “damp¬ 
ing off” till they get the true leaves. I 
find that the transplanting lessens the 
chance of the loss of plants. In the flats, 
in which the plants have more room, sav 
about 1 G in. each way. they can grow 
till time to set in the cold frame and given 
room enough to develop into stout plants. 
Our farmers art' in a great state of uncer¬ 
tainty in regard to planting tomatoes. 
The general purpose seems to he to drop 
the tomato crop this season, unless a fair 
contract can he had with the canners. 
and. on the other hand, the canners are 
afraid to make contracts. 
It is odd. however, that our growers arc 
so shy of investing in more intensive work 
and by the use of glass forward early to¬ 
matoes for the Northern markets. With 
properly handled plants we can here put 
tomatoes on the market by the 20th of 
•Tune, and any good tomatoes will bring 
a profitable price till the last of June, ami 
then the canners can take the remainder. 
I once put tomatoes into the Baltinum 
market two weeks ahead of the growers 
on that side of the hay. and sold at fancy 
price till the growers around Baltimore 
broke the market, and then I sold $400 
worth to a canning house. Our people 
are very slow about getting into intensive 
gardening. We have great markets dose, 
many times as much sunshine in Winter 
and a milder climate than the Lake Shore 
region. And yet men make fortunes there 
growing vegetable crops in greenhouses 
in Winter. 
The lettuce the Lake Shore growers 
produce in Winter in heated greenhouses 
we ca ngrovv in a cold frame. For lack 
of sunshine they cannot grow the mid¬ 
winter crop of tomatoes, but grow the 
Spring crop coming into market in com¬ 
petition with the Florida crop. With our 
far greater amount of Winter sunshine we 
can grow tomatoes for January and Feb¬ 
ruary. 
When I was younger and stronger I 
grew frame lettuce all Winter and ship¬ 
ped it to Baltimore from a location on 
the Eastern Shore directly opposite Bal¬ 
timore. and down on this lower end of 
the peninsula it can be done far better. 
But our growers today aim to be exten¬ 
sive growers, and fail to realize that a 
small area of land can be made to produce 
greater profit than a large one by the in¬ 
telligent use of glass. 
Just now the sweet potato crop Inns 
been about the most regularly profitable 
vegetable crop grown here, and the pros¬ 
pect is that a great area will he devoted 
to it this season. With no competition 
except South Jersey there is less fluctua¬ 
tion in the sweet potato market than 
that of any other truck crop. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
A man came home the other night and 
found his three children all busy on the 
floor with his new and expensive box of 
cigars. “What are you doing with those 
cigars?” he roared. “Oh. father,” said 
the boy. pointing to the brown tobacco 
remnants on the floor, “we were pretend¬ 
ing that they were khaki soldiers and we 
took off their puttees and now we can’t 
get them on again.”—New York Globe. 
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