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DECEMBER 



falls and the days are dark. Some, of course, are by 

 nature endued 



as with a sense 

 And faculty for storm and turbulence. 



Among these is our native honeysuckle, and its taste for 

 winter has been so encouraged by the man of science 

 that winter-flowering varieties have been established and 

 are as precious an addition to the winter garden as the 

 earliest heath or rhododendron. One may well forget 

 winter even on a dark and frosty evening when a little 

 vase on the window-ledge holds mauve sprays of that 

 glory of precocity, the Iris Stylosa, and yellow sprays of 

 the naked jessamine. 



