CHAPTER X OCTOBER 

 THE EARLY FALL GLORY 



IF SEPTEMBER shows as its distinguishing 

 feature garden maturity, October may be 

 said, in this climate at least, to put a plus mark 

 on the same feature. All the things you have been 

 doing come to some result by October, and the 

 hint of the coming winter rest-time for the vege- 

 table kingdom only hastens the rush to grow, it 

 seems. When I look back over the records of past 

 Octobers, and then look around me at the record, 

 on and in the ground, of this October, I am con- 

 strained to call it a very full month, and a very 

 pleasing one. 



The lawns have recovered from the paralysis 

 of summer's heat, so deadening to the grass on 

 this yet thin soil at Breeze Hill, and the green is 

 rich and deep. Cool nights have caused the roses 

 to rejoice, and not only all the steady bloomers 

 like Teplitz (that's my name for Gruss an Teplitz, 

 a scandalous load for a great little rose!), Orleans 

 and Baby Rambler are exerting themselves, but 

 Killarney and the hybrid teas are at work making 



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