Hardy Plants in the Green IViountains 
Pabt I. 
Last Fall someone made an inquiry 
about a few hardy plants, and f have 
been waiting for an article on ironclad 
plants. Perhaps my experience may help 
some beginners, and others may add to 
the list of plants which have proven both 
satisfactory and hardy with me. 
Hardy plants must be hard // in North¬ 
ern New Hngland, for although we usu¬ 
ally have plenty of snow for protection, 
every live or six years we have a Win¬ 
ter when the ground is bare much of the 
time, and some time during the Winter 
the mercury nearly always drops to 20 de¬ 
grees or perhaps more below zero. Of 
shrubs, the lilacs, syringa or mock or¬ 
ange, barberry, Japan quince, Weigela, 
Hydrangea, flowering almond, Spirant Van 
Houttei and S. prunifolia and the Ash¬ 
leaved Spiraea (possibly others), Vibur¬ 
num opulus (mghbush cranberry), and 
Viburnum opulus sterilis (common snow¬ 
ball) are all hardy, but the Japan snow¬ 
ball usually dies back considerably, and so 
does Spiraea Anthony Waterer. The 
Doutzlns are usually satisfactory, but 
occasionally die back. The Rose of Shar¬ 
on is hardy, blit frost often takes it be¬ 
fore it blooms. The smoke tree (Rhus) 
is really a tree, but lovely on account of 
its oddity, and sure to attract attention. 
Robinias (locusts) are among our hand¬ 
somest and most, fragrant flowers, and at¬ 
tain the dimensions of trees, except Ro- 
binia hispida or sweet pea shrub, which is 
seldom more than two or three feet high, 
but is not fragrant. I am intending to 
try the Foraythia or golden bell and see if 
it will prove hardy. 
Our house is back from the road, and 
this year the location of the driveway is 
to be changed so that I can have a new 
perennial border more than a hundred 
feet long, in addition to what I already 
have, and 1 am studying for hardy vines 
to cover the arches we want. The Iter 
is surprisingly small. Clematis paniculate 
and the wild variety, Virgin’s bower, are 
my favorites. Then there are- the ram¬ 
bler roses; the rose Baltimore Belle is 
loveliest of all. but a friend takes hers 
down and lays it beside the house, covers 
with loaves and then a board roof. She 
is well repaid, as it. covers the portico, 
and the pale pink blooms are as large 
as many Hybrid Perpetuate. The much- 
vaunted Kud/.u vine is too coarse, the 
Wistaria and honeysuckles often die back, 
and the Wistaria often proves a shy 
bloomer. The scarlet trumpet honeysuckle 
I saw once on a low trellis, so it formed 
ft mound perhaps three feet high. It 
never winterkilled or failed to bloom 
while 1 knew it. Perhaps the snow pro¬ 
tected it, as it. would not do on an arch 
or trellis. The Lycium or Chinese matri¬ 
mony vine is perfectly hardy and retains 
its small neat foliage late in the Fall; 
the blooms are «mall, purplish pink, fol¬ 
lowed by bright scarlet berries. It is 
really more of a trailing shrub. 
Can someone tell me about Apios tube¬ 
rose? I have never seen it, and do not 
know' whether it is hardy here. The 
cinnamon vine should be planted deeply 
and covered with strawy manure in the 
Fall. The vine is thin, so a number 
should be planted together. 
One satisfactory shrub omitted is the 
wild pink Azalea, variously known as 
river pink, mom tain pink and sw amp 
pink. It, is a mass of pink bloom the 
latter part of May or first week of June, 
and one who has been where the swamp 
is tilled or bordered by the plants will 
never forget the sight, nor th * perfume. 
They will grow in dry soil, but are at 
their best where it. is moist. There is a 
white-flowered variety, but have never 
been able to find where it could be ob¬ 
tained. |These Azaleas are now clashed 
as Rhododendrons. The pink variety, 
known in New Jersey as Pinxter flower, 
is R, nudiflorum. The white one is R. 
viscosum, commonly called white swamp 
honeysuckle.—Eds.l Most of tin Hybrid 
Perpetual roses are quite hardy if well 
protected, but doesn’t a fortune await 
the one who w ill propagate the roses our 
grandmothers had? The rose season be¬ 
gins with the beautiful tiny-leaved Scotch 
briers, white, pink and yellow. A semi¬ 
double red rose averaging about JO inches 
high is a mass of large, bright blossoms, 
and tin* foliage is a dark green, thieker 
than most- roses, so inserts seldom attack 
it. There is also a large double rose in 
the yard, white with creamy center. It 
is an old, old rose, and lost its name 
years ago. A friend who is nearly seventy 
‘•alls hers “mother’s rose,” and her mother 
raised it in Canada. The old-fashioned 
pink, blush or damask rose is perfect in 
form and color, blush outer petals and 
when just, opening the center is a glowing 
pink. The buds often blast if it is dry. 
so just give it good soakings, especially 
of soapsuds. MOTHER DEE. 
KURAL NEW-YORKER 
well after rubbing them. You now will 
have sacks as white as snow, and not a 
mark left. 
For my pillow cases I get a box of tat¬ 
ting cotton, all colors w'bich boil, and 
take a dessert plate, mark out about, five 
scallops across the pillow case and cut 
2 n t', Take- a fine crochet needle and just 
finish with a half stitch, or, if you like, 
make a narrow edging. For the towels I 
just make one row across each end of 
cross-stitch in red. I would like Mrs. A. 
J. B. to try my method. MRS. G. u. 
A College Education 
I was very much interested in “Hope 
Notos on 482. Living in a 
college town where thousands of boys are 
educated (?>, coming into close contact 
with some of them, and also with many 
ot then- instructors, I can only say that 
the Hope harm writer is to be congrat¬ 
ulated on that last, sentence in his article: 
"I will never send another boy to college 
unless he is willing to work out his edu¬ 
cation. If only every parent in the laud 
uiMild form a like resolution what disap¬ 
pointment and sorrow might be saved ’ I 
believe firmly in a college education for a 
boy (and a girl, too) if they are the right 
kind of boy and girl. A college education 
not. only enables its possessor to obtain 
better business positions than one who is 
not; similarly equipped, but it enriches and 
enlarges the life in every way if the stu¬ 
dent has made the most of bis opportuni¬ 
ties. Rut when I see hundreds of boys 
squandering time, failing in class work 
and examination, and graduating with 
the minimum of knowledge required 1 
feel that parents should be very sure rimt 
their children want an education and not 
merely a good time when they send them 
to CO J logo. 
The college is in no way to blame for 
this Hass. They must fake what is sent 
to them, and the instructors are fully alive 
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lo the uselessness of sending such a lx>v 
to college. 1 know many parents are giv¬ 
ing the education of their children dec., 
consideration, and I feel this side of the 
question is of the greatest importance to 
uieni. It really seems a tragedy to one 
who sees the useless sacrifices that nianv 
parents are making. One vouug mail 
whom I knew intimately while in college 
was sowing money for all sorts of pleas¬ 
ures. neglecting college work for glee 
etui), soccer team and fraternity life 
while his mother went in shabby clothing 
ami Ins lather borrowed tanner for what 
be believed were the boy’s necessarv ex- 
ponses. 
A fraternity membership is the aim of u 
large proportion of boys in college. Their 
parents rarely know anything of its influ¬ 
ence except what their boy represents to 
them or I am certain the fraternities 
would fall off in membership. If some of 
Hie parents eoubl live for a few weeks in 
a coHege town, especially through a period 
of 'house parties,”, they would cross off 
fraternity membership as a necessity for 
their sons. 
Another thing my experience has led me 
to the conclusion: No eo-edueational in 
stitutioii for my daughter unless I should 
happen to live in the community where it 
is was situated! Otherwise, a woman’s 
oolloge! 
For either boy or girl: Don’t try to 
gratt a college education on a defective 
elementary foundation. It never produces 
satisfactory results. It is being tried verv 
frequently, however, to the distraction of 
college professors and the ultimate disap¬ 
pointment of all concerned. This prob¬ 
lem of educating children is indeed n se¬ 
rious one, lmt if a good groundwork of 
character has been given the child, and be 
is willing to work for his education, vou 
need not fear the effect of college life' on 
him. But be sure your boy is the right 
sort before you send him. 
MRS. CHARLES JOHNSTON. 
Cleansing Grain Sacks 
I would like to help Mrs A. J. Ti. in 
preparing feed sacks, and tel! her my waj 
of doing them. I make them into pillow 
cases and kitchen towels. I soak them 
first in kerosene for one or two nights, 
then soak them in the water left from 
washing two or three times. Then I get 
a can of chloride of lime and make Jn- 
velle water (directions on cant and put 
this in the wash tub half full of water 
and soak bags in this for an hour (one can 
of lime is enough for two dozen sacks). 
Take a stick and lift them out of this, 
put into the wash boiler (do not wring 
them), put soup in ami then boil. Rinse 
Keeping Eggs in Lime-Salt 
This calls for one pint of suit, one pint 
umdaked lime, four gallons of boiling wa¬ 
ter. Pour boiling water over salt and 
lime. When cold it is ready for use. 
\bovo quantity packs about 200 eggs 
1 lie eggs must be packed on small end 
carefully and not cracked. I have kept 
eggs a year and never lmd one spoil. This 
is much more inexpensive than water 
glass, sodium silicate. n. t. p. 
Whey Honey—One cup whey, one-third 
cup sugar or one-half cup corn syrup. 
Mix the whey and sugar and boil until it 
is the consistency of strained honey. Bot¬ 
tle and use for spreading on waffles or 
pancakes. Made « little thinner it is an 
excellent pudding sauce. 
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