TREES 



did not survive. Pyramid box treated in 

 the same way also died. In future I shall 

 have the box trees and other tender ever- 

 greens lifted from the ground, planted in 

 boxes and stored through the Winter. In 

 cold localities where the thermometer may 

 drop to forty degrees below zero and not 

 rise above ten below for six weeks at a time, 

 as it did last Winter in our part of the coun- 

 try for the first time within the memory of 

 the oldest inhabitant, it is best to take extra 

 precautions to prevent great disaster in the 

 garden. 



In a newspaper last Spring I read the 

 statement, which struck terror to my heart, 

 that some astronomer had announced that 

 the cold, wet Summer of a year ago fol- 

 lowed by the severe Winter, was due to spots 

 on the sun, denoting abnormal atmospheric 

 conditions; that it would take nine years for 

 these spots to disappear, and that accord- 

 ingly the weather for nine years would be 

 unusual. There may be nothing in this sup- 

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