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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The Literary Digest for July IS has an 
article under a heading, “Corn from 
G'ass in Eighteen Years.” The article is 
mainly u quotation from a Burbank 
booster, and tells how Mr. Burbank has 
directed the evolution of the wild grass 
teosinte into corn in 18 years, thus show¬ 
ing that teosinte is the wild original of 
corn. Unfortunately the writer does not 
seem to know that teosinte has been 
grown by farmers as a fodder plant for 
many more years than 18, and that it is 
still teosinte and not corn. Furthermore, 
since teosinte makes seed only in the 
tropics, it is hard to see how it is evo- 
luted for 18 years in California. The 
Digest shows cuts of what is called the 
final result of the evolution, an ear of 
corn, each grain of which has its own 
husk. Since this species of corn has been 
grown as a curiosity for generations, and 
there is no evidence that it ever had any 
connection with teosinte, there seems to 
be a gap in the evolution of teosinte. IIow 
many of the long list of wonderful “cre¬ 
ations” we boa” about from California 
have ever been of any real practical value? 
T suppose this will add another book to 
the set the Burbank Company has tried 
to sell for $150.. 
With the advent of plenty of rain and 
intense heat, the garden has developed a 
tropical luxuriance. Eggplants have 
made such tremendous tops that the soil 
has to be pulled up to prevent them fall¬ 
ing over. In fact, one i>lant did fall over. 
Tomatoes, too, have grown tremendously, 
and though fruiting heavily, the ripening 
was delayed, and still here near the mid¬ 
dle of July we are not getting the 
abundance we usually had weeks before 
this. Right across the road a farmer has 
about one-lialf to three-quarters of an 
acre of cucumbers. This plot is making 
a very remarkable crop. lie began pick¬ 
ing just at the end of the drought and the 
crop was mainly nubbins. The first pick¬ 
ing after the rain was an improvement, 
hut the percentage of No. 3 cukes was 
larger than that of No. 1. Then the 
picking still further improved, till now 
be is getting a larger percentage of No. 1. 
The cukes are sold at auction at the rail¬ 
road station. T am interested in noting 
how that plot will turn out. The price 
has run from $2 per bushel hamper to 
$1.45. For days past the grower has 
been getting about $85 a day, and it looks 
as though the plot is going to be a profit¬ 
able one. As the cantaloupe crop will 
soon be on the growers are anxious to fin¬ 
ish up the cukes, but that plot is turn¬ 
ing out over 40 bushels a day, and with 
the very favorable weather it showns no 
signs of stopping production. As cucum¬ 
bers do not stop for Sunday, the Monday 
picking was largely of the second class, 
or overlarge cucumbers. With daily 
picking the run is far better. The can¬ 
taloupe crop promises far better than it 
did before the rains, and if the growers 
do not ruin their sale by picking them too 
green the crop may still be a profitable 
one. 
My lawyer friend, on whose farm is 
the sweet potato crop which I poked fun 
at recently in one of these letters, says 
he knew that it was his field I meant, and 
that I must say in The lb N.-Y. that 
those cut-down plants are growing all 
right. This simply shows the remarkable 
vitality of the green stems of sweet po¬ 
tatoes. With the soil in the condition it 
is now we can plant unrooted cuttings of 
the vines and they will quickly root and 
make potatoes. This is now being done 
to make bedding stock for next Spring. 
In some seasons tlio?— cuttings will make 
marketable size potatoes. The Nanticoke 
blackberries are beginning to ripen two 
weeks earlier than usual. 
A correspondent in South Carolina sent 
me two beans, apparently red kidney 
beans. He said that a man there was 
selling these beans for $35 a bushel, and 
wanted my opinion about them. I ad¬ 
vised him not to bite, and that I would 
plant these beaus and see what they turn 
out. They are growing, and are growing 
as fast as kudzu, being evidently tall 
climbers. I am beginning to wonder what 
they will turn out to be. A short rem¬ 
nant of woven wire fence comes in handy 
to set around them to climb on. Roasting 
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