'Cloudy and Colder' 



that is known to be able to stand your 

 climate and thrive. Why torture a 

 dainty cut-leaved birch or a beautiful 

 beech by asking it to drag out a brief 

 and precarious existence under condi- 

 tions where it cannot possibly be 

 happy? And so with shrubbery. Draw 

 on the roadside and the tangled wood- 

 lots. There will be crab apples and 

 thorns and sumacs, wild grapes and 

 creepers that will respond to care, and 

 laugh at storms and drouths, because 

 they come of an ancestry that has 

 accommodated itself to that which 

 has to be faced each recurring winter 

 and summer. Mark some of these 

 during your winter walks, and maybe 

 in the early spring you can at light 

 expense transform bare or unsightly 

 places into attractive pictures later on. 

 Meantime the telephone is ringing: 

 "Hello! This is the office. Will you 

 be in tomorrow?" 



"No. I am not yet through closing 

 up the place." 



