FLOWERS IN SEASON 



that month when I have failed to find raspberries 

 in bearing, and in the White Mountains, after 

 several nights of frost, I have battened on black- 

 berries, and have noted how active the foxes had 

 been in gathering the fruit before me. We are 

 liable to have a fresh output of honeysuckle, and 

 the dahlias are lingering. Dandelions I have 

 found in bloom on Long Island in every one of 

 the twelve months, though not of the same year. 

 But October is the month of the chrysanthemum, 

 and unless the weather becomes intolerably cold 

 it lasts into November. It seems as if nature 

 made a final effort to hold the admiration of her 

 children; hence she beams up from the fading 

 earth with a smile, fitful and pathetic, yet as 

 bright as summer. 



In November we find lingering a geranium, 

 possibly, or a petunia, or some of the coarser way- 

 side growths, but the beauty of the garden has 

 passed, unless it is a Southern garden, or a garden 

 In California, for there it is always spring in the 

 air and summer on the earth. It is the certainty 

 of winter, however, that makes us, who have it, 

 prize the fleeting beauty of the garden all the 

 more, though we may envy the people of warm 

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