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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
We ate the last Nanticoke blackberries 
August 20, a little earlier than usual. 
The crop was short, for between the 
frosts of Spring and the failure in pollin¬ 
ation thousands of clusters did not ma¬ 
ture. 
A reader says that his peaches were de¬ 
stroyed by the bees, and he wants to know 
how to prevent it. In the first place, the 
bees did not destroy the fruit. A bee 
cannot cut through the skin of a peach. 
IIis mouth is not built that way. It is 
made for sucking up the nectar of flowers. 
You let the peaches hang on the tree 
till over-ripe, aud then the June bugs and 
wasps cut into them, and the bees natur¬ 
ally sucked the sweet juice. Spraying for 
the eurculio with lead arsenate will ans¬ 
wer to keep the wasps out. But even the 
June bug and the wasp will not cut a 
peach till it is over-ripe, and before that 
time it should have been gathered. But 
do not accuse the bees of damage they 
did not do, even though particeps criminis 
after the deed. 
We have had a cool spell in August, but 
as the month closes the heat comes back. 
The hottest weather in my record of years 
ago was on September 0. with a tempera¬ 
ture of 10C> degrees. Today, August 20, 
it is 05 before noon, and what it may yet 
be I may note later. I have succeeded 
this season iu getting a real late plot of 
tomatoes.-* The plants do not promise to 
ripen till itilo September, and I will prob- 
ably have plenty of grown green fruit to 
wrap up and store for Christmas. The 
late Irish potatoes are growing finely, 
but with the prevailing drought it is hard 
to predict what the crop will be. Let¬ 
tuce, turnips and spinach have germinated 
poorly, as they are out of the range of 
the overhead irrigation. The late cab¬ 
bages under irrigation are growing rap¬ 
idly. What few green caterpillars have 
appeared are easily kept down with dust¬ 
ings of air-slaked lime with a little salt. 
The only fear now is that they may head 
too early to keep for Winter. 
The fine red tomato I mentioned re¬ 
cently is from seed sent me by a friend 
in New Jersey, who says that he calls it 
the Jumbo, and that it is of his own 
breeding, and is no relation to l’ouderosa 
and other large tomatoes. ITe writes that 
he has had specimens weighing 12 to 21 
ounces. The ones I have selected for 
seed weighed nine ounces each. These 
are large enough. They are very produc¬ 
tive and early for so large a tomato, and 
I hope to give them a more complete test 
another season. The fruit is similar in 
appearance to Crimson Cushion, very 
smooth and very meaty, with no hard 
core. Altogether I regard it as a very 
promising tomato. Whether the seed will 
he put- in commerce I do not know, hence 
do not write to me for them. 
The “Lilac of the South,” the crape 
myrtle, is now in its glory. We had 
trees here of the dark carmine variety 20 
ft. high till the terrible Winter of 1917- 
1S, which cut them badly, hut they are 
rapidly recovering, and are blooming 
finely. The crape myrtle flourishes all 
over the Eastern Shore of Maryland, hut 
gets killed at Baltimore. In the South, 
where the lilac does not thrive, the gar¬ 
deners can console themselves that the 
crape myrtle is far more showy and 
glooms far longer. Here we are on the 
border line, for the lilacs thrive and bloom 
as well as anywhere, and we can grow the 
crape myrtle, too. It only guts hurt in 
abnormal Winters, and these come sel¬ 
dom. The umbrella China trees, which 
were badly killed hack in the Winter 
mentioned, are out now in full shape. 
This city seems to he the northern limit 
for the China tree, for I have never seen 
one north of here. w. F. massky. 
Substitutes for Lime 
Several readers want to know if they 
will get better results through the use of 
land plaster or gypsum rather than lime 
for sweetening the soil. The answer is 
no. The land plaster is a sulphate of 
lime, and its reaction in the soil is more 
acid than alkaline. It is good to use in 
the stable or on the manure to help re¬ 
tain the ammonia, but for sweetening the 
soil burnt lime or ground limestone is 
very much better. The finer the lime- 
stoue is ground the more efficient it be¬ 
comes. Generally speaking, one ton of 
burnt lime is considered equal to two 
tons of ground limestone. 
Do you discriminate at the dining 
table—or are you thoughtlessf 
In thousands of homes, 
a “line” is drawn at the 
breakfast table. Tea or 
coffee is served for 
“grown-ups” and Postum 
for children. But some 
parents do not discrimin¬ 
ate. Caffeine and tannin, 
the injurious contents of 
coffee and tea, seriously 
retard the development of 
the delicate nerve tissues 
in children. 
Consequently, instead 
of rich, satisfying Postum, 
children are over stimu¬ 
lated by the drugs in tea 
and coffee; and so may 
grow up irritable and 
nervous. Any doctor can 
tell you that this is a 
great evil and should be 
corrected. 
Although some par¬ 
ents feel a certain justifi¬ 
cation for the personal 
indulgence in coffee, yet 
the harm to them may 
be equally serious. It 
may take a little while 
longer for the drugs in 
coffee and tea to affect 
an older person, but in 
many cases the nervous 
system and allied bodily 
functions will become 
weakened. The surest 
way to avoid such pos¬ 
sibilities is to quit coffee 
entirely and drink Postum 
instead. The change per¬ 
mits you to get sound, 
restful sleep. 
Postum is the well- 
known, meal-time bever¬ 
age. Like thousands of 
others you will like it be¬ 
cause, in flavor, it is 
much like a high-grade 
coffee. 
Do away with the dis¬ 
tinction at the table. 
Serve delicious Postum, 
piping hot, to all the fam¬ 
ily. One week’s trial and 
it is likely that you’ll never 
return to tea and coffee. 
Postum comes in two 
forms: Instant Postum (in tins) 
made instantly in the cup by 
the addition of boiling water. 
Postum Cereal (in packages of 
larger bulk, for those v r ho pre¬ 
fer to make the drink while the 
meal is being prepared) made 
by boiling for 20 minutes. 
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