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the most marvelous storehouses in the 

 world. Even an egg does not equal it, 

 because eggs are of simpler and less 

 varied designs. An egg must be cod- 

 dled and cared for ; it will not even 

 stand a chill. But look at the bud. It 

 is a marvel of tenderness and of hardi- 

 ness — so fragile and delicate, yet within 

 it is the potentiality of a tree that may 

 endure for centuries. It is a marvel of 

 skill. Herein is marvel for a lifetime. 

 No words can adequately pro! ray the 

 marvelous ingenuity that placed so 

 much within so little. You must see 

 for your self. Do not be content with 

 one kind. Peer reverently into many 

 of these marvels. Gather them freely 

 in vour walks in winter woods. Take 



Freezing Fruit Buds. 



What is meant by the freezing of 

 fruit buds in winter, by which the 

 peach crop is so often lost in Northern 

 States? When spring opens, the 

 warmth of the air wakes the sleeping 

 buds. It thaws the ice in the intercel- 

 lular spaces, and the cells are quick 

 to absorb the water they gave up when 

 winter approached. The thawing of 

 the ground surrounds the roots with 

 moisture. Sap rises and flows into the 

 utmost twig. Warm days in January 

 or February are able to deceive the 

 tree to this extent. The sudden change 

 back to winter again catches them. The 

 plump cells are ruptured and killed by 

 the "frost bite." — Julia Ellen Rogers 









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THE BUDS OF THE SKUNK CABBAGE DO NOT WAIT FOR 

 SPRING BUT PUSH UP THROUGH THE SNOW. 

 Drawing by W. I. Beecroft, Adams, Massachusetts • 



them to a convenient and well lighted 

 table, and with a sharp knife, slender 

 tweezers and a simple microscope, cut 

 and search. See these wonders at first 

 hand. Never mind the clock. What 

 is Time when you are studying the 

 work of the Infinite? 



Editorial Acknowledgements. 



The photomicrographs of cross sections of 

 buds of poppy, water lily and sycamore maple 

 are from slides by Mr. J. B. Howard, 45. 

 Frenchgate, Richmond, Yorks, England. 



The photographs of snow and icy brook 

 scenery were taken with an imported Zeiss 

 Protar from E. B. Meyrowitz, Inc., Xew York 

 City. 



Trees Inherit Form, 

 From the Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion near Zurich, in Switzerland, comes 

 the report that crookedness of trunk in 

 a parent Norway spruce is repeated in 

 at least half the seedlings grown from 

 it. Practically, therefore, it becomes 

 highly important, in all attempts at re- 

 foresting, to take seed only from 

 straight trees. Otherwise the new 

 growth is likely to be gnarled and 

 twisted. Evidently we must no longer 

 be satisfied to take seed from trees as 

 they come, but must select only the 

 best growth of each old stand to propa- 

 gate the new, and be as careful with 

 our forest seed as we are with our gar- 

 den seed. 



