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or some portion of western north Carolina. There is no national park ex- 

 cept military parks in the south. All that will be asked of congress at 

 present is the appointment of a commission to examine into the propriety 

 and feasibility of preserving the forest regions near the border.- — Am- 

 erican Gerdenino-. 



CULTIVATION. 



■WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IX THE TREES." 



In the spring, when the green gits back in the trees, 

 And the sun comes out and stays, 



And your boots pull on with a good, tight squeeze. 

 And you think of your barefoot days; 



When you ort to work and you want to not, 

 And you and yer wife agrees 



It's time to spade up the garden lot — 



When the green gits back in the trees- 

 Well, work is the least of my idees 

 When the green, you know, gits back in the trees. 



When the green gits back in the trees, and bees 



Is a-buzzin' aroun' again, 

 In that kind a lazy "go-as-you-please" 



Old gait they hum roun' in; 

 When the ground's all bald where the hayrick stood, 



And the crick's riz, and the breeze 

 Coa.xes the bloom in the old dogwood, 



And the green gits back in the trees— 



I like, as I say, in sich scenes as these, 



The time when the green gits back in the trees. 



When the whole tail-feathers o' winter time 

 Is pulled out and gone. 



And the sap it thaws and begins to climb. 

 And the sweat it starts out on 



A feller's forrerd, a-gittin' down 

 At the old spring on his knees— 



I kind o' like, jus' a-loaferin' roun' 



When the green gits back in the trees— 

 Jes' a-potterin' roun' as I— do— please- 

 When the green, you know, gits back in the trees. 



—/allies VVIiitcomb Riiey 



