WINDBREAKS, SHELTERS, ETC. Qt 



Virginia creeper we get the gold and the crimson 

 together. Among the really good grapes, capable 

 of helping us in the way of making shelters, I know 

 nothing to surpass the August Giant. This grape 

 should be better known on the farm. It is the most 

 rapid grower that I have found among nearly one 

 hundred varieties. It will make canes twenty, thirty 

 and even forty feet long in a single season, while the 

 foliage is very large, rich and abundant. The leaves 

 are like palmleaf fans. The fruit is also thoroughly 

 good. The time of ripening is rather late in central 

 New York, but, as a rule, it perfects itself by the first 

 to the tenth of October. The Gaertner and the Her- 

 bert are also very large-leaved varieties and of mag- 

 nificent growth, while their fruit is of the highest 

 quality. They will both need considerable care, 

 because not absolutely hardy, nor self-pollenizing, 

 while August Giant will take excellent care of itself. 

 It will quickly cover an arbor or interlace your trees, 

 and will not be easily torn down by wind. 



But in the consideration of this subject I can 

 do nothing so well for you as to say, get into some 

 wild section and study nature. See what beautiful 

 things she can construct, and then go you and do 

 likewise, or as near likewise as your opportunities 

 afford. The most beautiful things in this world are 

 in the forest openings and in the wild glens and in 

 the forests. 



"Whether we look, or whether we listen. 

 We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; 

 Every clod feels a stir of might, 



An instinct within it that reaches and towers, 

 And, groping blindly above it for light, 



Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers." 



