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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
Perennials Among Poplar Roots 
I have a plot of rather heavy damp 
soil, overrun with Carolina poplar roots 
close to the surface of the ground. It 
would be impossible to plow it. I wish 
to have a bed of perennial flowers and 
shrubs. Would be very much obliged if 
you could tell me what would grow best 
there. There is plenty of sun. 
Medusa, N. Y. mrs. h. e. m. 
If the ground is full of poplar roots, 
it will be difficult to establish perennial 
plants there; the tree roots will rob the 
ground of moisture and fertility, aud will 
also prevent proper preparation of the 
soil before planting. It would not seem 
desirable for peonies or Japanese Iris, or 
for any plants that require deep moist 
soil. Columbines, Gypsophila. Gaillardia, 
pinks and Michaelmas daisies, Oswego 
tea or bergamot and Coreopsis lanceolata 
would be likely to do well, aud such an¬ 
nuals as Zinnias, marigolds, Portulaca, 
Petunias and four-o’clocks could be used 
for variety. ^The Japanese barberry is 
an attractive shrub that might do well, 
and the various privets are desirable 
where soil conditions are not of the best. 
Up in the Cold Country 
I have often read about Aunt Hannah 
Payne’s balsam pillows, and wondered 
about her, for she lives in my country, 
so to speak, Raequette Lake is about 50 
miles south of my home. When I read 
about her and her home life and Uncle 
Billy and their garden I though it might 
interest readers to know just how we 
northern farmers fight the elements. 
My father was an old Adirondack 
guide, and made many trips to Raequette 
Lake with “sports.” The entire distance 
can be traveled by boat (canoe). My 
farm is located one mile north of Sara¬ 
nac Lake, world-famous health resort. 
The altitude is about 2,000 ft. It is 
about 300 ft. higher than the valley 
through which the beautiful Saranac 
River flows. This 300 ft. often makes 
as much as 15 degrees’ difference in the 
temperature and often my corn is green 
two and sometimes three weeks after the 
corn in the valley is killed. 
We are seldom able to turn our cattle 
out before May 10-15, and usually have 
a killing frost around June 10. I have 
seen it snow hard on June 21. The first 
frost in the Fall comes any time after 
September 1, and last year we had a hard 
one on August 10. 
Lots of people will smile at the idea of 
planting seeds with mittens on. Last 
year I got several hundred “frost-proof” 
cabbage plants. They came May 8. I 
finished planting them May 9. Used can¬ 
vas gloves and thought my hands would 
freeze. Next morning. May 10, the ther¬ 
mometer registered 10 degrees above zero 
but strange as it may seem every plant 
lived. 
Lots of down-State farmers will won¬ 
der how we manage to grow anything, 
but we do, nevertheless. I raise wonder¬ 
ful sweet corn, vegetables of all kinds 
including tomatoes. No finer potatoes 
are produced than those grown in our 
county and the adjoining county, Frank¬ 
lin. Some years I have had fine seed 
corn. Red Glaze, Golden Glow and a 
small eight-rowed kind ripened perfectly. 
I have a neighbor who raises most won¬ 
derful celery and cauliflower. Small 
grain such as oats, rye, wheat, barley 
and buckwheat give excellent yields. I 
think Alfalfa could be made to produce 
two crops at least. The Winters, of 
course, are long and cold as a rule, 
though this year it seems is not quite up 
to standard. 
As a rule the first snowstorms come 
early in November, and we sometimes 
have sleighing for Thanksgiving. Real 
cold weather does not come much before 
January 1, though I have seen it 44 de¬ 
grees below zero in December. The cold¬ 
est I ever knew it to be was about 25 
years ago when the mercury dropped to 
56 degrees below. I have seen 72 consec¬ 
utive hours of intense cold, the warmest 
being 18 degrees below at high noon with 
sun shining directly on the thermometer. 
Of course this is not common. Tempera¬ 
tures range as a rule from 20 degrees 
above to 20 degrees below. When such 
intense cold is experienced, the ground 
freezes to great depth, sometimes 3% ft. 
It must be remembered that 2 ft. of snow 
as a rule covers everything. I have seen 
4 ft. on the level and drifts over 15 ft. 
deep, but think our friends from Central 
IT w York and Connecticut can tell us 
about deep snow. I think they have more 
snow than we do; even Raequette and 
Big Moose Lake country have greater 
snowfalls, of late, than we. 
Despite the cold Winters and short 
Summers we raise some wonderful crops. 
The R. N.-Y. never looked so good to 
us as it has this Winter. We just look 
for it from week to week. 
8 . F. WARDNER. 
A constituent not long ago sent the 
following information to his Congress¬ 
man: “Yu needent send me eny seads this 
yere az i hav awl i kan yews wat i wanta 
no iz dew yew deel in frewt trease if sew 
i wood lik a phew ov yewer politeeal 
plums, i bleeve id like etn.”—Judge. 
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