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then do more business. It will make a 
profit. This extra earning is the economic 
rent, and under the present system the 
landlord demands it and gets it. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The garden is sad looking; the only 
things attractive in any way are the Chrys¬ 
anthemums and the few Dahlias that are 
still blooming. This 25th of October the 
soil seems as dry as ever; somehow the 
Gannas still flaunt their green and bronze 
leaves, but the only moisture they get 
must come from the dew that gathers in 
their cups. Only here aud there a solitary 
head of bloom. In fact, many of the 
Gannas have not made a flower this Sum¬ 
mer. 
The sweet potatoes made a fair crop, 
and the vines, the only thing that showed 
any signs of the one frost we had, are let 
to remain to rot and be dug up in the 
Spring. There are still a few little egg¬ 
plant fruits, hut they will not develop to 
eating size, and the plants look tired and 
rusty. The Fall bulbs are still waiting 
rain for planting.- It is hard to make a 
good job in the dust, and so the tulips and 
hyacinths arc waiting. These Autumn 
days are simply glorious, and but for our 
wanting to finish up the Fall work aud 
for our sympathy for the farmers who 
need rain for wheat and clover, we would 
hardly care to have a change in this Cali¬ 
fornia weather. Two days ago the mer¬ 
cury rose to 85 by noon. The coloring 
of the trees is wonderfully fine this sea¬ 
son, and on a telephone pcie near by a 
volunteer Virginia creeper has climbed to 
the top, and the pole seems clothed with 
scarlet Poinscttia bracts, for the leaves 
have put on their Autumn scarlet more 
intense than usual. The Ampelopsis on 
ray chimney is still deep dark green, with 
no sigus of coloring yet, and the kudzu is 
clothed with Summer green. Joseph Mee¬ 
han once sent me a cluster of the flowers 
of the kudzu. They resembled miniature 
racemes of the Wistaria, but a darker 
blue. At what age and under what con¬ 
ditions the plant blooms I have never dis¬ 
covered. I have grown it for twenty 
years in North Carolina and Maryland, 
and have never seen a flower on it. It is 
a little curious that it should bloom in 
Philadelphia rather than southward. 
[It blooms freely with us in Northern 
New Jersey every year, and even forms 
pods, but they do not ripen. Hens are 
extremely fond of the flowers and eat 
them greedily.—Eds.] 
An oleander plant has gotten so large 
that I will not house it this Winter. It 
was planted in the garden in the Spring, 
and I propose to tie it up closely and 
sheathe it thickly with cornstalks, tie 
them in closely and then bank the earth 
thickly about the base. The oleander 
will grow from the base here after the top 
is killed, but the plant will not bloom the 
next season. If by a good thick cover 
we can save the top, we can get the bloom 
all right. The plant mentioned was killed 
to the tub the cold Winter of 1917-18 
when the fire failed iu the room where it 
was being wintered. It was then in a far 
more tender condition than a plant that 
has been taking the gradual coming of 
cold. It made a dense, bushy growth 
from the roots, and has bloomed well in 
two seasons since. This Summer it has 
made a number of seed pods, 1 aud if thoy 
mature I will try to grow some seedlings. 
My big Wistaria has sent out runners 
on the ground as long as those of the 
kudzu. One runner has rooted under the 
front porch, and its tip is coming out the 
farther end of the porch, 30 ft. away. 
Another runner has gone more than 30 ft. 
at right angles with the first one, and both 
have reached situations where I. am per¬ 
fectly willing for them to climb up. Most 
of the Wistarias sold by nurserymen are 
seedlings, and it takes them several years 
to show a flower. These self-layered 
plants will bloom almost from the start. 
There are few plants more beautiful than 
a blooming Wistaria, the harbinger of 
Spring, like the Banksia roses. The yel¬ 
low Banksia gets hurt lu-ie, while the 
white Banksia seems hardy, and .it is 
easier to handle than any other climbing 
roses, since it has no thorns. And yet 1 
once had it killed back in Raleigh, N. C., 
in an unusually cold Winter. The morn¬ 
ing sunshine bursting on the frozen tissues 
of these evergreen vines often does more 
damage than the actual cold. 
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