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thickets turning crimson in the first frosts will 

 warn you that you must be thinking of your 

 winter stores. Bitter-sweet you must have, and 

 red rose hips, and the sand hills of Dune Park 

 "will yield both, and at the same time perhaps, on 

 the edge of some slough, belated fringed gentians 

 and one or two lonely cardinal flowers. 



So late, you will get only a handful of the pure 

 deep-blue gentians. The cardinals you will take 

 with their roots, for in your garden they will 

 thrive and bloom and multiply, and their intense 

 glowing color will be many seasons' delight. 



You will make one more trip to the north 

 shore for late golden-rod and the red berries 

 of the Solomon's seal, and one trip to Pullman 

 for some of the cat-tails that are filling Calumet 

 Lake. 



Our brown grasses for the brown vase that 

 would be nothing without them, we have collected 

 early and quite incidentally at Morgan Park. 



Thither we go sometimes for an hour or two, 

 just as we used to go to South Shore, for Mother 

 discovered long ago a charming walk that takes 

 us all in a minute out of the suburban atmosphere 

 into the real country air. At the end of the Mor- 

 gan Park trolley line a path leads northward 

 along the cemetery into a veritable country road, 



