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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1429 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Just now the garden looks shabby. We 
have not completed the cleaning up, 
though the compost pile is growing. My 
rule is that all the dead vegetation left 
from the season’s cropping must event¬ 
ually return to the garden. One excep¬ 
tion is made to this rule. This is in the 
case of the cornstalks. They decay slowly, 
and when the roasting ears are off the 
stalks are taken up and shocked and 
cured, and there is always some one 
ready to pay cash for the stover. The 
price it demands here is better than its 
manurial value, and the cash from its 
sale will buy more manure than the corn¬ 
stalks will make. 
The fruit trees, having been freed from 
a crop, have made a fine growth, notwith¬ 
standing the arid Summer. The Califor¬ 
nia nameless plums have developed to a 
fine size. These four trees were sent to 
me from the Government grounds at 
Chico, Cal. There were two of each 
cross-bred form, and they were sent only 
as hybrid plums. One sort is a large 
prune-shaped plum of red color. The 
other is an apple-shaped plum with yel¬ 
low skin and a red blush on one side. 
Both are good, the apple-shaped one es¬ 
pecially. It was a special disappoint¬ 
ment to lose the crop the past Summer, 
because it was the first season which the 
Wood is Scarce—Coal is High 
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W ITH the winter winds howling and the 
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fetched another armful of wood. But today, 
firewood is fast disappearing and the cost of coal 
climbs steadily higher. The remedy is a warm 
house—built of 
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full crop had been promised. All our 
plums have made a good growth. The 
German prune, which has been growing 
very slowly, seemed to take on a new 
vigor, and has made growth that will re¬ 
quire a good deal of cutting back at the 
pruning time. The Shropshire damson is 
a beautiful tree to grow, because of its 
erect and symmetrical habit. Cherries 
have done well, but here it is hard to save 
them, for the rose chafers, our great 
Spring pest, will eat all the sweet cher¬ 
ries, though they do not seem so fond of 
the Morellos.- After years of fighting 
with all sorts of poison mixtures, I have 
come to the conclusion that the only way 
to save the grapes and cherries here is to 
cover vines and trees with Millinet. There 
is no insect known that is so invulnerable 
against arsenical insecticides. Melrosine, 
claimed to be death to them, is claimed 
by its makers to kill them only on rose 
bushes. They are immune on other 
plants. It did not kill them on rose 
bushes here. Dusting with pure calcium 
arsenate on roses seemed to hurt the bugs, 
but came near to killing the rose bushes, 
too. The dusting did not seem to hurt 
grapevines nor the bugs either. But one 
dusting on late cabbages cleaned up the 
green caterpillars, and nothing wipes out 
the Colorado 'beetles as well and quickly 
as the dusting with calcium arsenate. 
Just now comes the tug-of-war. We 
have to remove the old canes from the 
Nauticoke blackberry clumps. That means 
long-handled clippers and hard work, for 
nothing in the blackberry line is so fierce 
and thorny. They will come out, but 
make another exception to the compost 
pile, for they are burned at once. 
If any of our readers have not tried 
the Ray peach, I advise them to plant at 
least one tree for home use. It is a 
white-fleshed freestone, and one of the 
most beautiful of peaches. Then its qual¬ 
ity is unsurpassed. Elberta is showy, 
but sour, the Ben Davis of peaches, and 
a money-maker for the Georgia growers. 
Mr. Collins, botanist in the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, has returned from 
Mexico, and has sent me the latest publi¬ 
cations of his work in Mexico in the cross¬ 
ing of corn and teosinte. lie thinks that 
some of the corn-teosinte hybrids will 
make valuable forage plants, as they not 
only make some corn, but sucker at the 
base densely, after the manner of teosinte. 
Mr. Collins writes that he discovered in 
Mexico a perennial species of teosinte. 
Of course, it will hardly be a hardy per¬ 
ennial. 
Some readers are interested in what 
I have said in regard to our commercial 
storage houses here for the sweet potato 
crop. I would suggest that they can get 
from the Department of Agriculture 
copies of Farmers’ Bulletin 900. on sweet 
potato growing, 970 on storage, and 1059 
on sweet potato diseases, w. f. massey. 
It was a hot, sleepy afternoon and the 
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ing starch,” she demanded of Tommy, who 
appeared more interested in drowning a 
fly in his inkwell. Roused by the teach¬ 
er’s voice into alertness, he replied: “Two 
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