W* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1303 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
This is the 20th of October, and we 
have had but one fairly good rain since 
the 3d of August, and one would assume 
that any plants have had a hard time to 
live rather than get overgrown. But I 
saw this morning some specimens of the 
Nancy Hall sweet potato which weighed 
4 lbs. each. The drought-resisting pow< r 
of the sweet potato plant is wonderful. 
The crop is now being harvested, and is 
mainly going into storage, since the price 
in the North just now is controlled by the 
flood of Virginia sweets. Our growers 
prefer to store and ship in Winter and 
Spring. The commercial storage houses 
demand that they be brought direct from 
the field as they are dug daily, for they 
fear if kept over at the farms that they 
may get chilled and that would interfere 
with their keeping. When the large 
shipments from the two Virginia counties 
are over there will be a better chance in 
the market for our section and South 
Jersey. 
We had a slight frost on the 14th, but 
it has been warm since, and the Gannas 
and Dahlias are still blooming. The 
blooming of the Cannas has been very 
poor on account of the dry weather, and 
the Spring-planted Cannas have made a 
very poor growth. The Cannas left out 
in the soil last Fall have made their 
usual height, as they were ready rooted 
and got a long start of the transplanted 
ones, which had to contend against tin- 
early drought at the start. It is for¬ 
tunate that our main Fall crop, the sweet 
potato, is such a drought resisting plant. 
When the roots grow to 4 lbs. it is hard 
to say what they would have done had tin- 
weather been more- favorable. 
The one rain we had the 1st o£ October 
seemed to be enough to cause the Crim¬ 
son clover to germinate. Across the road 
where the fine cucumber crop was pro¬ 
duced, which I have mentioned, the land 
is showing green now with the young 
clover. If really cold weather is de¬ 
ferred and some rainfall, it may get strong 
enough to winter well, but it is now in a 
state that might be fatal if hard freezing 
occurs in November. A year ago killing 
frost was deferred till November 10, but 
we more often have it right about this 
part of the month of October. With the 
nights not getting below 5H, and last 
night (>5, with a midday temperature of 
SO or more, it does not feel like frost, 
but with a shift of the wind to the north¬ 
west it does not take long to bring Jack 
Frost down from Medicine Hat, where 
they say our cold is manufactured. Clad 
I do not live at Medicine ITat. T am 
afraid that I would need more medicine 
than a hat. In fact, it has always been 
a wonder to me why men should want io 
farm in a country where a friend called 
it nine months Winter and three months 
late in tin- Fall. This brilliant October 
sunshine would suit me for the whole 
Winter. 
As I told tin- Hardeners’ Club in Cleve¬ 
land years ago, we have plenty of cold 
weather, but the sun shines in Winter, 
and though \ had often been in Cleveland 
in Winter, I never saw the sun shine 
there at that season. If our growers only 
realized the value of their Winter sun¬ 
shine they could beat Cleveland and all 
the lake region in forcing vegetables un¬ 
der glass, but where nature is favorable 
the people are always slow to take ad¬ 
vantage of it. Difficulties seem to stir 
men to greater effort. The best gardeners 
in the world as a class were developed in 
the miserable climate of Scotland, and 
Winter forcing has grown in tli.e cloudy 
Winters of the lake region instead of the 
far more really favorable climate of the 
Delmarva Peninsula. Some day our peo¬ 
ple will realize their advantages. 
W. K. MASSEY. 
Propagating Barberries 
I have tried without good results to 
propagate Japanese barberry. May ibis 
be done by either seed or clipping? What 
would be the best ways of handling it? 
Corning, N. Y. w. s. 
Barberries germinate readily from 
seeds. The seeds should be separated 
from the pul]) by maceration and sown in 
flats or broadcast in beds in the Fall, and 
they will germinate the following Spring. 
This is the easiest method of propagation, 
and is usually very satisfactory. Cut¬ 
tings of green wood may lx- taken from 
the first to the middle of June, and placed 
m sand in a shaded hotbed. Ripe wood 
cuttings under glass are less satisfactory. 
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