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Notes  from  a  Maryland  Garden 
This  is  the  beginning  of  Winter — De¬ 
cember  21.  The  weather  man  promised 
us  snow  or  sleet  yesterday,  but  instead 
we  had  a  glorious  sunshine  all  day,  with 
a  keen  little  breeze  that  came  straight 
from  Medicine  Hat,  where  our  cold 
weather  is  mobilized  and  sent  down  here. 
The  morning  temperature  at  sunrise  was 
25  above  zero.  The  frame  lettuce  is 
headed,  white  and  brittle,  and  we  are 
getting  after  its  vitiamines  at  nearly 
every  meal.  Spinach  is  still  unscorched, 
and  the  curled  Scotch  kale  has  only  been 
improved  for  greens.  The  Siberian  kale 
we  leave  for  midwinter  use,  as  it  is  more 
perfectly  hardy  than  the  Scotch.  The 
remnant  of  the  outdoor  lettuce  is  only 
scorched  outside  and  the  hearts  are  good. 
The  most  pleasing  thing  for  the  first  of 
Winter  is  the  fact  that  our  first  ton  of 
coal  arrived  and  was  stored  this  morning, 
and  we  can  now  have  a  fire  that  will  heat 
bath  and  bedrooms.  How  we  will  nurse 
that  ton  of  coal,  not  knowing  when  we 
will  get  another.  There  is  plenty  of  soft 
coal  on  the  market,  but  we  have  only  a 
small  stove  made  for  using  it.  Our  main 
heater  refuses  to  use  it.  Long  ago  I 
drew  the  water  from  the  pipes  in  my 
office  to  prevent  their  freezing,  and  am 
burning  wood  there  in  a  sheet-iron  stove. 
That  coal  strike  upset  all  household  ar¬ 
rangements. 
The  lettuce  frames,  where  we  are  sim¬ 
ply  wintering  the  Iceberg  and  Wonderful 
lettuces  for  heading  in  early  Spring,  nev¬ 
er  have  the  sashes  entirely  closed,  for  we 
do  not  wish  it  to  get  to  growing  tender. 
Therefore  sashes  are  left  two  or  three 
inches  down  at  top.  Doubtless  some  frost 
will  get  in,  but  not  enough  to  do  serious 
harm.  Then  in  March  the  frames  are 
entirely  removed  and  used  for  transplant¬ 
ing  the  tomato  plants  started  elsewhere. 
The  statement  of  Mr.  Vaughan  in  re¬ 
gard  to  the  commercial  cultivation  of 
tulip  bulbs  in  this  country  is  perfectly  cor¬ 
rect,  as  anyone  would  discover  who  tries 
to  get  American-grown  bulbs  of  the  tulip. 
And  yet  I  do  not  know  why  it  should  he 
so,  for  I  grow  as  fine  tulip  bulbs  here  as 
any  I  have  ever  used  of  the  imported 
class.  It  is  like  a  great  many  other 
things ;  I  suppose  the  Dutch  can  grow 
them  cheaper. 
Narcissus  bulbs  are  now  grown  in  Vir¬ 
ginia  and  North  Carolina  which  florists 
find  better  suited  to  Winter  forcing  than 
the  imported,  and  all  the  tuberose  bulbs 
sold  are  grown  in  a  limited  district  in 
Eastern  North  Carolina.  The  govern¬ 
ment  has  been  experimenting  with  bulb 
growing  for  years  in  the  State  of  'Wash¬ 
ington,  but  the  culture,  though  claimed 
to  have  produced  first-class  products,  has 
never  developed  into  a  commercial  suc¬ 
cess.  We  can  grow  as  fine  bulbs  of  the 
Candidum  lily,  hut  France  still  supplies 
the  market.  There  is  doubtless  some  sec¬ 
tion  of  this  country  where  the  Longi- 
florum  lilies  now  imported  from  Japan 
could  be  grown  as  well,  but  still  the  sup¬ 
ply  comes  mainly  from  Japan,  and  the 
Bermuda  supply  is  too  limited  and  recent¬ 
ly  diseased  to  fill  the  demand.  Commerce 
seeks  a  supply  of  the  best  and  cheapest, 
and  certain  garden  products  have  come  to 
be  more  economically  produced  in  cer¬ 
tain  parts  of  the  world,  and  the  trade 
seeks  its  supply  there  simply  because 
they  must.  The  trade,  as  Mr.  Vaughan 
well  knows,  is  not  concerned  in  building 
up  the  bulb  culture  here.  It  is  simply 
interested  in  getting  the  best  products  for 
the  least  money.  I  have  grown  in  North 
Carolina  and  sold  to  Mr.  Vaughan  and 
other  seedsmen  bulbs  of  Amaryllis  as  fine 
as  or  finer  than  grown  elsewhere,  and  I 
have  tried  to  produce  them  here,  but  they 
object  to  'the  conditions  here.  Some  of 
these  things  may  gradually  grow  up  into 
specialties  in  sections  of  our  vast  array 
of  soils  and  climates,  but  they  cannot  be 
forced  by  the  government.  It  must  be  a 
natural  adaptation  and  must  show  profit. 
There  is  a  fever  for  farm  improvement 
in  the  South.  The  farmers  realize  that 
the  boll  weevil  must  be  fought  and  a 
smaller  area  be  devoted  to  cotton,  and 
that  they  must  change  from  planters  to 
farmers.  I  get  letters  from  farmers  in 
all  parts  of  the  country,  but  mainly  from 
the  South,  and  have  this  year  written  re¬ 
plies  to  about  3,000  letters  asking  advice. 
But  while  I  have  had  such  letters  from 
nearly  all  parts  of  this  country,  and  even 
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