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May 14, 1921 
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Horticultural Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
One could hardly realize from the pres¬ 
ent appearance of my early Irish potatoes 
that they have been frozen down twice. 
The main difference seems to be that the 
destrueton of the terminal bud has made 
a dense growth of lateral branches. What 
effect this will have on the crop is yet to 
be seen, but at present I have the finest 
looking patch of potatoes I have seen. 
The bloom of the early peas was not so 
profuse as usual, and doubtless many of 
the flower buds were killed. The com¬ 
mercial crop of peas will be uncommonly 
short, and eanners, who usually put them 
up in large quantities, will hardly open 
their canneries. In fact, the canning 
business of all varieties seems to have 
come lo a dead halt. The eanners say 
that the price of canned goods is now so 
low that they cannot make any profit in 
the business, and the farmers are not dis¬ 
posed to grow the supplies at pre-war 
prices. It will take at least another year 
to readjust the canning business and the 
producing of materials for canning. 
The dry Ganna roots planted recently 
are putting a few shoots above ground, 
while the Gannas left in the ground all 
Winter are a foot tall and with well-de¬ 
veloped leaves. Sugar corn came up to 
a good stand, but both corn and string 
beans need hotter weather than we yet 
have. The Black Valentine beans look 
perfectly healthy, hut do not grow fast. 
I plant only a few of them, solely because 
of their comparative hardiness, but clean 
them out as soon as the better kind are 
ready for use. We are now setting plants 
of the Hanson lettuce. It is useless here 
to set plants of the Boston for heading, 
as it runs to bloom with the first hot 
weather. The Hanson, being a variety 
of the curled India type, usually heads 
well in warm weather. 
A Connecticut firm offered what it calls 
the Burbank tomato as one of Burbank’s 
creations, and very early. I ordered a 
package of the seed, and after a month’s 
waiting finally received the little package. 
The seeds were certainly good, for every 
one germinated, and while I have little 
faith in Burbank products in the East. I 
shall be able to report on this one later. 
The same firm has sent me complimen¬ 
tary some seed of the old Yard-long Bean, 
Doliehos sesquipedalis, which they offer 
among many old things as something new. 
The only feature of much account in this 
bean is the length of its pods. Their 
catalogue lists other novelties such as the 
“Garden Huckleberry.” This was once 
known as the Wonderberry. I believe. It 
is really a large fruited nightshade. Then 
they have the Gigantic Guinea bean, which 
is not a bean at all, hut a gourd. The 
Giant Sword bean is given its right name, 
and not Coffee bean. A 3-ft. radish is 
also listed. They have ‘‘Almond Nuts,” 
which make 300 to one planted. These 
are ehufas, a species of the sedge fam¬ 
ily that makes edible nuts and much 
growth in the South for hogs to root out. 
Then the Wonderful butter bean covers a 
silver dollar; it is evidently one of the 
broad beans like the horse bean and 
Broad Windsor, which do well in the 
South, planted in November or December, 
to come in with the green peas in the 
Spring. In the North they would have 
to be planted in the Spring, and striking 
the hot weather, will not make much of 
a crop. In quality these beans will not 
compare with the Limas. They are grown 
in England, where they cannot make the 
Lima beans. The catalogue pictures many 
other “novelties.” If the Burbank to¬ 
mato is not any greater value than most 
of these I will have made the test in 
vain. 
Our weather here is better suited to 
radishes and lettuce than to beans and 
cantaloupes, though both of these seem 
to stand it bravely. I noticed a few days 
ago men cultivating a field of cucumbers 
right across the road from m.v office had 
one man replanting, and he seemed to he 
replanting a good many hills. These 
replants, like the replants in cantaloupes, 
will come in when the market is stocked 
and the price low. and will hardly pay for 
the trouble and seed. Commercial re¬ 
planting of missing hills rarely pays. Even 
iD the cornfielT] the replanted hills come in 
after the shower of pollen is all over and 
only make imperfect cullings which they 
happen to set with their own pollen. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Carbolic Acid Emulsion for Cabbage 
Maggots 
What is the formula for applying bi¬ 
sulphide of carbon to cabbage and cauli¬ 
flower to repel maggots? s. G. 
Pennsylvania. 
There must be some mistake about 
this. What we have told about is the 
carbolic-soap emulsion, made as follows. 
This will kill the maggots: 
Hard soap .1 ]b. 
Hot water (soft). % gal. 
Carbolic acid (crude).1 p t. 
Dilute as directed. 
Dissolve 1 lb of hard soap in y 2 gal. 
of boiling water. Then add one pint of 
crude carbolic acid, and at once churn the 
mixture by pumping it back on itself with 
a bucket pump until a smooth emulsion 
is formed. This is the stock material. To 
prepare for use dilute at the rate of one 
part of the stock emulsion to 50 parts of 
water. 
Fertilizing Value of Soot 
T have a chance to get. quite a quantity 
of soot from a factory where they burn 
mostly soft coal. Can you tell me its 
value as a fertilizer? a. a. f. 
New Jersey. 
Soot is really a form of charcoal or 
carbon. It contains the unburned por¬ 
tion of the fuel earried up by the draft 
and deposited in the chimney as the smoke 
cools. All coal contains some nitrogen, 
and in burning a part of it is deposited 
with the soot in the form of ammonia, 
so that an average sample of soot is like 
a finely pulverized charcoal with a small 
quantity of ammonia mixed through it. 
It gives good results on gardens, especially 
on cold soils. The black color darkens 
such soils and makes them retain the 
heat, so that they are earlier for Spring 
work. Aside from its value for supply¬ 
ing ammonia the soot destroys many gar¬ 
den insects and, like other forms of-char¬ 
coal, absorbs gases and holds moisture. 
It varies greatly in composition, but is 
well worth using. 
Facts About a Big Tree 
The following note was printed in the 
New York World: 
“I saw in yesterday’s World that Geor¬ 
gia thought probably Greensboro had the 
largest apple tree in the United States. 
In our back yard is an apple tree that 
measures in circumference at its base 12 
ft. and 2 in. I don’t know how old it is. 
but it's a good deal over 100 years old. 
and still bearing a big crop of apples. 
“LIZZIE WHITE MAKLEY. 
“Unadilla, N. Y.” 
I think the readers of Tiie R. N.-Y. 
would be glad to hear something about 
that tree, its kind, productivity, etc. 
Won’t you ascertain the facts and pub¬ 
lish them ? g. V. 
A letter to Mrs. Makley brings the fol¬ 
lowing response. We shall be glad to 
hear of other big trees. 
Our big apple tree is in a good state 
of preservation, and it bears a small rus¬ 
set Winter apple. About 6 ft. from the 
ground it has four branches going straight 
up, each large as a good big apple tree. 
It is a very prettily shaped tree. 
When my father bought the land, many 
years ago, I have heard him say it was 
a big tree then, and there wei-e four or 
five more of them. Some of the older 
people that have always lived here think 
they were planted by the Indians. Lots 
of them lived in this valley. 
LIZZIE WHITE MAKLEY. 
Nitrate of Soda on Garden Crops 
How can we use nitrate of soda on 
watermelons, cantaloupes, corn, lama 
beans, eggplants, etc.? M. T. J. 
In small garden culture you can. dis¬ 
solve one ounce of the nitrate in a gal¬ 
lon of water and pour the liquid around 
the plants. Some growers dissolve the 
nitrate and pour the liquid over coal 
ashes or coarse sand. When these are 
dried they can be spread like fertilizer 
and carry the nitrogen to the plants. On 
large fields the nitrate can be broadcast 
at the rate of 150 lbs. per acre, either 
alone or when mixed with an equal bulk 
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