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Protecting Plants Over 
Winter; Mullein Pink 
ITow hard it is not to bring into the 
house pansies, snapdragons, pinks and 
other flowers that have lived through the 
first hard frosts that have killed many 
of our favorites! But it is not right to 
fill our windows with plants and shut out 
the view, and in the country we need no 
sash curtains; there is no one across the 
driveway to look in. 
A few ferns, a partridge vine in a fish¬ 
bowl or a clear glass dish that may be 
bought at the five and 10-cent store, a 
few bulbs that may be brought to the 
light during the Winter, give pleasure to 
the whole family that windows crowded 
full of plants do not give to all of the 
family, especially men folks, who don't 
like to be cluttered up. 
Many plants hardy as to low tempera¬ 
tures cannot stand freezing and thawing. 
A roll of building paper is a good cover¬ 
ing, and easy to clean up in the Spring. 
Do not smother; use bricks or stones to 
hold it down, but be sure to place so 
there may be air circulating under it. 
Geraniums will winter under almost 
any conditions if kept from the frost. I 
wonder if any readers of Tiie R. N.-Y. 
have ever raised mullein leaf pinks, and 
if they are 'pretty. kosina. 
R. N.-Y.—The mullein pink, or rose 
campion, Lychnis coronaria, is a charm¬ 
ing old-fashioned plant with velvety sil¬ 
ver gray leaves and vivid crimson flowers, 
blooming over a long period. It blooms 
the second year from seed, and as it self¬ 
sows very freely, and may be transplant¬ 
ed without trouble, it increases rapidly. 
While it likes good loam and an open 
situation, it grows almost anywhere, and 
is very hardy if not allowed to heave out. 
Straightening Crooked 
Trees 
I have two nice big apple trees which 
are leaning to the east at an angle of 
about 45 degrees, and are going that way 
more and more, flow can I straighten 
them, and what time of the year would 
be best to do it? G-B. 
Trees usually leau in a direction away 
from the prevailing wind, and it would 
seem that your trees are no exception. 
When the trees are young and are not 
(firmly established, every puff of wind sends 
them more and more to one side. The 
only way they can straighten themselves 
is to grow upright above the part that is 
bent over. A crooked tree results, of 
course. If the trees are small you need 
merely to drive a stake on the west side 
of the trees and tie them to it for a few 
years, until they get firmly set. With big 
trees that cannot be staked it is prac¬ 
tically impossible to be of any assistance. 
Experienced growers always set young 
trees slightly inclined in the direction of 
the prevailing wind, rather than in any 
other direction. H. B. T. 
Drying Plums 
I have several trees of a very fine va¬ 
riety of dark plum of good size and very 
sweet flavor. Will you tell me how to 
dry them? H. w. d. 
Drying is confined almost entirely to 
California and regions of dry weather at 
the customary season for drying. Unless 
artificial methods were employed it is 
questionable whether drying could be ac¬ 
complished on a commercial scale in the 
East. In the first place, plums must he 
kept free from brown rot by regular spray¬ 
ing practices. The fruit is allowed to 
ripen until it drops, and until it is soft 
to the touch. Then in order to facilitate 
drying the fruit is dipped for a few sec¬ 
onds into a boiling bath of 1 lb. of con¬ 
centrated lye to 30 gallons of water. The 
skin is thereby slightly broken and wrin¬ 
kled, and the fruit dries more quickly 
and easilv. It would be possible to dry 
plums on a small scale for home use by 
using artificial heat or by protecting the 
trays of fruit out of doors from rain. 
II. B. T. 
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From The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30 th St., N. Y. 
Tipping Purple-cane 
Raspberries 
I expect to put down tips for new 
plants from my purple raspberries this 
Fall. Some tell me that this injures the 
main plants for fruiting. Can. you tell 
me if this is true? Does the laying down 
of tips for next year’s plants lessen the 
vitality of the old plants? F. M. s. 
So far as we are aware the tipping of 
purple -anes does not affect the next sea¬ 
son’s crop. Frequently black raspber¬ 
ries and some purple-canes tip by them¬ 
selves without outside aid, though where 
one expects new plants he would best 
make sure of the fact by helping to hold 
the tips in place. Some varieties of 
purple-canes will not tip, probably ex¬ 
plained by the fact that they are a cross 
between the red raspberry and the black 
raspberrv and are either propagated 
readily by tips or not, depending upon 
their relation to the red or to the black 
raspberry. So far as affecting the vigor 
of the plant is concerned, the tips are 
cut off before Spring by pruning, 
whether the plants are used for propa¬ 
gation or not. We cannot see why this 
process should have any effect upon the 
next year’s crop. h. b. t. 
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