A 

 WHITE - PAPER GARDEN 



JANUARY 



THE SNOWY MOON 



JANUARYS, thank God! come every 

 year, and every one of them has thirty-one 

 days which are of a shortness, and are almost 

 sure to be of a snowiness and a coldness 

 which distinguish them from even December 

 days or from those that belong to February. 

 January sunshine brings us an experience that 

 is all its own, and never else-time may such 

 sunsets be seen. 



Taking these things separately or together, 

 it is at once obvious that January is a most 

 propitious garden-month, with gifts which it 

 were both sin and folly to ignore. 



" Live they not against nature that in the 

 winter ask for a rose, and by the nourishment 

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