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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The end of the first week iu March and 
real Summer weather. The mercury for 
the past two mornings has beeu above 60 
at sunrise and over 80 iu the early after¬ 
noon. Hut March is the most treacherous 
month in the year, and we have learned 
that when she comes in like a lamb we 
may look out for the lion before the end. 
I no longer wonder that apples are high 
priced down here. Our retailers buy 
from local jobbers, and they buy from the 
commission men in the cities, and all the 
various profits are charged against the 
consumer. Then, too. the freight and ex¬ 
press charges are something awful. My 
daughter, over the bay iu Virginia, sent 
ns a bushel of apples, and the express 
charged $1.16 freight. What she paid for 
the apples I do not know, but I am sure 
the express got the biggest part. 
T am still fighting the rats. I thought at 
first it was mice that destroyed my tomato 
plants, bnt find it is rats, and that they 
have a hole under the brick wall of the 
greenhouse. T propose to plug that inside 
the house, and then dig down on to il 
outside the house and pour a can of car¬ 
bon bisulphide into the hole and plug it 
with earth. I believe that will get them. 
They eat all the poison that 1 lay out for 
them, but seem to thrive on it. Now I 
will gas them. If the hole was a little 
j farther from 11 f» buildings I would put 
the pint of carbon bisulphide down in il 
and sot a fuso to it and blow them up. 
At any rate, I think that T will interfere 
with their domestic arrangements. 
My Southern correspondents keep send¬ 
ing me the circulars of the “Great Amer¬ 
ican Coffee Bean.” and doubtless they are 
finding many suckers. This worthless 
thing will not attract any buyers who live 
North, for it will barely ripen seed here. 
Two years ago they tried to sell it as 
Chicnsaw Lima. We scotched that, and 
now it is the Great American coffee bean. 
If has no value for man or beast, and the 
Southern subscribers to THE It. N.-Y. can 
look out for th( i smooth-talking agent who 
offers a contract to take all the beans they 
will grow at $6 a bushel. They made the 
same offer last Spring, and T have tried in 
vain to find anyone who sold the beans to 
them for $6 a bushel. 
To a student of nature it is a never- 
ceasing wonder how so small a thing as a 
Begonia seed can carry over life in a dor¬ 
mant state and have the power to de¬ 
velop into a stately plant. Just now I 
have a flat of Begonia seed just germi¬ 
nating. They are green dots not larger 
than the head of a pin. if as large. Of 
course they tire as large as could he ex¬ 
pected from the dust-like seed, for If there 
is any seed smaller than those of the 
Begonia I have never seen them. The 
species I have now germinating is the 
everblooming strain. 1 grow them mixed 
in color, from white to pink, deep rose 
and scarlet, and they eome in very nicely 
here for bedding, as they bloom inveter- 
ately all the time and stand the sun. 
The zonal geraniums that are used so 
much for bedding in the North are useless 
here, for they will not endure the heat of : 
our sandy soil in Summer and, no matter j 
how pretty thev ma.v be when set out. I 
they soon dwindle and stop blooming, lose 
their leaves and generally seem miserable, i 
And yet. well attended to in pots on the 
"orcli or in window and porch boxes, they [ 
do very well. But the Begonias do so 
much better that I grow a good many, i 
Seeds sown in mid-February will make 1 
- ice plants for bedding after the middle of 
May. 
T A^ correspondent and reader of The It. 
N.-A . sends me two Irish potatoes and 
asks what variety they are. It. is very I 
hard to identify tubers positively. One 
of these, the smallest, looks like the type 
of the Farly Rose, but it may he Early 
Ohio or some other of the Early Bose 
type. The other and larger one looks 
like the old Snowflake, a round, smooth 
potato, with shallow eyes and few of 
them. Both are probably early varieties, 
but are different. 
W riting this with doors, etc., open, and 
tlie sun making one feel like pulling off 
his coat and taking rake and hoe, yet 
there is nothing not. planted that one 
could safely plant. Were we sure of this 
weather continuing we could plant, beans 
and cukes and all sorts of things. But 
we have to pinch ourselves to remember 
that this is only March iu a good humor. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Onions for Pickling 
1 wish to plant some white onions for 
pickling. What would be the best time 
for sowing seed? I do not wish these to 
ripen before the other onions. Would it 
he better to sow seed about the end of 
•Tune? Will the Prize-taker or Southport 
Large Yellow grow in this climate? 
Walpole, Mass. n. R. 
It is not advisable to plant onions for 
pickling purposes or any other purpose 
as late as the end of June, because at that 
time the seed germinates very poorly, and 
the chances wou’d he against your getting 
a good crop. You know the onions like 
cool, moist weather in which to make 
their growth. The best time (<» plant is 
from the lfith of April to the 1st of May. 
There is no reason, however, why the 
sets shouldn’t keep for a long time. If 
put in a cool, dry place they will remain 
in good condition for many weeks. 
The yellow onions are not much iu de¬ 
mand for pickling purposes. Most people 
want white onions. Several kinds espe¬ 
cially adapted for pickling are sold in file¬ 
stores, White Tripoli being among the 
good kinds. e, i. f. 
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