Providence, R. I.
Dear St. Nicholas: In the December number of St. Nicholas, in “A Chat About Pottery,” I find on page 105 the question, “Who ever saw a blue dog?” and the answer, “In life, no one, my dear.” During the past month I have seen, several times, a dog as blue as the sky on a summer’s day. He is of the “Spitz” breed, and, as his master keeps a dye-house, we think he is used as an advertisement.
He attracts a good deal of attention when on the street.—Yours truly, Edwin S. T.
Shawangunk, N. Y.
Dear St. Nicholas: My uncles have taken the St. Nicholas for me for three years, and I like it very much.
I see in your “Letter-Box” a letter from Alma Aylesworth asking how apples were made to grow sweet on one side and sour on the other.
They take a sprout of the sweet and another of sour, just as near the same size as possible, split each in two at the middle, press one-half of each to a half of the other, put grafting-wax up the cracks, and set it in like any other graft.
For a few years, this limb will bear apples sweet on one side and sour on the other; but when the tree gets old, the apples will be of one flavor throughout.—I remain your faithful reader,
Mamie C. Cocks.