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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Looking at my robust plants of the 
ever-blooming Begonias, now covered with 
bloom from scarlet to white, it is always 
a source of wonder to me that the poten¬ 
tiality of life can be carried over in such 
infinitesimal seed, and produce such great 
strong plants, that hold their own in the 
arid atmosphere in this unprecedented 
drought. One could hardly feel a hundred 
Begonia seeds between thumb and fore¬ 
finger, and yet these almost microscopic 
seeds will carry life for a whole year, 
ready to start into activity as soon as the 
proper conditions are present. And yet 
though Begonias thrive best in a lmmid 
atmosphere and moist soil, the plants 
adapt themselves to arid conditions, and 
hold on till the weather changes to more 
favorable conditions. 
The ability of plants to survive and 
flourish under unnatural conditions var¬ 
ies greatly. We see the sportive Nephro- 
lepis fern thriving on the porches and 
making immense plants, while an Adian- 
tum Farleyense would he dead in 24 hours 
with the porch treatment. A great part 
of the gardener’s art consists in a knowl¬ 
edge of plants and their needs. The fail¬ 
ure of the amateur gardener with many 
plants is due to lack of this knowledge. 
ITe can easily get a garden pea to grow, 
even if deeply covered, hut if he sowed 
Begonia seed or Oriental poppy seed and 
covered them in like manner he would 
never get a plant. And yet it is not 
always the size of the seed that governs 
the depth of planting. We would never 
see the large Lima bean if we covered its 
seed as we do the garden pea. It could 
not turn over its big valves that answer 
for seed leaves under a cover of earth. 
Therefore we stick it eye down just deep 
enough for the germ to get moisture to 
strike out the root and push the seed 
leaves above the ground. 
This terrible dry Summer has been a 
great test on the germination of any seed 
in the open ground, unassisted by arti¬ 
ficial irrigation. Turnip and salsify seed 
and August-sown lettuce seed have all 
failed for the lack of one of the three things 
essential to the germination of a seed: 
Proper temperature, moisture and oxygen. 
An extra temperature and the absence of 
moisture broke up the trio, and failure 
was certain. And yet there are some 
things that have not only kept green and 
thriving in spite of the heat and absence 
of moisture. A bed of the dwarf Agera- 
tum Fraseri looks just as happy and as 
full of its blue flowers as though there 
had been plenty of rain. For our dry 
sandy soil this plant is wonderfully 
adapted, and makes a solid blue mass of 
bloom on wide spreading plants not over 
6 to 8 inches high. The everblooming 
Begonias also stand well, hut are far bet¬ 
ter where they have been irrigated. The 
zonal geraniums, which make such fine 
beds north of us, are perfectly useless for 
bedding here, and only succeed at pot 
plants. 
Years ago some of the florists, espe^ 
daily the late John Saul, of Washington, 
took a great pride in growing gorgeous 
specimens of the Croton plant. Mr. Saul 
grew these in a greenhouse reeking with 
moisture and a heat of 90 degrees, and 
kept this temperature by firing even in 
Summer cool spells. He got marvelously 
colored plants for the Fall shows of the 
old Maryland Horticultural Society, 
which was entirely a florists’ association. 
The beautiful plants failed rapidly after 
being 'brought into the open air and a 
cooler temperature. No one then thought 
of growing Crotons out of doors. Being 
tropical plants, it was assumed that the 
most humid tropical conditions were es¬ 
sential. But some one had the nerve to 
risk the high-priced plants in a bed, and 
it was discovered that many varieties of 
Croton made fine bedding plants in our 
tropical Summers when regularly irri¬ 
gated. The narrow-leaved varieties bed 
out well, taking chances of rain. 
This Summer some of my Dahlias 
came under the water pipe and have made 
such an enormous growth that though 
tied up to stakes of the usual height- their 
great weight has broken them down from 
the stakes. Too favorable conditions of 
growth make more growth than bloom in 
Dahlias. Those in poorer soil and with¬ 
out irrigation have made a normal growth 
and are making a normal bloom. 
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