It* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
645 
Horticultural Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
April 1 I dawned with eight inches of 
snow on the ground, but the soil was too 
warm for it. and by night it was nearly 
gone. But a snow like this near the 
middle of April, after a snowless Winter, 
is quite a record for 1921. 
My Irish potatoes have been frozen 
down twice, and I will not. replant, for 
they will hardly amount to much, and one 
would better get a fair crop later than a 
worthless one early. Some of the market 
growers had planted the seed of canta¬ 
loupes and watermelons before the snow, 
and may have to plant again. Mine were 
planted today (April 14). and I noticed 
a neighbor planting a field of cucumbers 
yesterday. We are all hoping that frost 
is gone for good this time. If our grow¬ 
ers do not. get their cukes and melons 
started early they are apt to run into the 
New Jersey crop and lower prices, by 
reason of the competition, injuring both. 
Our melons should be nearly done when 
the New Jersey crop comes into the mar- 
out their circulars for the “Great Ameri¬ 
can Coffee beau.” but I note that the 
Southern farmers who read farm papers 
are on the lookout for them. One farmer 
asked me if the Biloxi bean was the jack 
bean, as he did not wish to get fooled. 
The Biloxi bean is a fairly good size for 
a Soy bean, and is of a reddish brown 
color, while the jack bean is very white 
and as large as a Lima bean. 
After two freezes my early garden peas 
look as though they are tired and have 
made a crop and want, to die. These peas 
were about to bloom, and the snow and 
freeze rather disheartened them. The 
late varieties do not seem hurt. I have 
put in some rows of the Thomas Buxton 
between the early planted ones, so that if 
the early ones really fail, I will have 
something in their room. But this may 
cause a surplus if these early ones come 
in along with the late ones planted earlier. 
Ordinarily we set tomato plants at any 
lime after April 1;>. but everyone will be 
inclined to wait till last of the month. 
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kct. This would benefit both sections. 
There is a very large bedding of sweet, 
potatoes, and the prospect is for a very 
large acreage. A man who could plant his 
acreage by bedding 25 bushels if he used 
all the plants produced, will bed 50 bushels 
in order to get a uniform stand early. 
The planting of cuttings from the early 
vines begins in July, though the crop will 
usually be large enough for bedding slips 
from cuttings set out in August. 
The middle of April is early enough 
to sow celery seed in this latitude to make 
plants to bring a crop in for Christmas 
and January. It is useless to try to 
make celery earlier here, for we cannot 
blanch it in hot weather. The only real 
crisp and nutty celery is that blanched 
with earth. The self-blanching sorts 
blanched with boards in the North in the 
late Summer and early Fall are useful as 
ornamental additions to the table, but 
for eating they do not compare with that 
made from green sorts blanched in earth. 
Anyone trying the two side by side will 
at once see the difference between hollow 
and stringy stalks and the crisp and 
brittle stalks of the earth blanched, and 
by planting in the Baltimore bed method 
we can blanch it all over with earth and 
not take it up till wanted for the table. 
We will have two acres here this sea¬ 
son in the Biloxi bean, a much-praised 
variety of the Sov bean grown on the 
Gulf Coast and claimed to make rim 
heaviest forage crop of all varieties. 1 
rather fear that the seed coming from tin' 
Gulf Coast may be too late to mature 
here. The jack bean fakers from 
Georgia and Arkansas are still sending 
This Spring my Norway maples were 
nearly in full leaf when the wet snow 
struck them and loaded them down, and 
the leaves still look discouraged and may 
fail fully to develop. There is a peculiar 
idiosyncrasy among these maples of same 
species. There are some on our streets 
that have hardly swelled a bud, and in 
the prevailing greenery look like dead 
trees. But they act in this way every 
Spring, and finally come out and look 
just like the others. I have noticed this 
in different trees of the American linden. 
The early Black-seeded Valentine beans, 
being more hardy than later and better 
sorts, are now being planted. In fact, 
part, of ray Lima beans were planted be¬ 
fore the snow and freeze. Whether they 
"ill germinate or not is yet. to be seen. 
W. F. M ASNKY. 
Seeding Clover with Peas and Oats 
In answer to S. II. K., on page 4.”.'{, 
will give him my experience in seeding 
with peas and oats. I take it his oats 
and peas are sown on plowed land. I 
work my land well, then drill my peas 
and oats, at the same time sowing a mix¬ 
ture of grass and clover seed. After this 
operation I cross the land with spring- 
tooth harrow. Some may hold up their 
hands in amazement and say grass and 
clover seed will smother if covered so 
deeply, but I have followed this plan for 
over 10 years, and have had better stands 
ot grass than any other method 1 ever 
used. I he peas and oats, if sown from 
— M: to ,1 bu. per acre, will not be too 
thick to smother the clover. Of course, 
I do not know anything about S. II. K.’s 
soil, but cannot see why this method will 
not work in one locality as well as an¬ 
other. I suggest he try a small patch 
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