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so that they looked like a lake from the plain of the fruticetum. 
It has found its old channels and regained its old banks, tearing 
away the low places in the road near the Blue pe and es 
are the stony foundations of man’s upbuilding. Even the 
minions of the law dared not defy its aaa forces and a at 
the boulevard, not caring to drive over its swift curr ent at the more 
pediment greater than bridges or ce for stretching from 
bank to bank and held by an island in le, was an ice- 
dam, and piled in wild confusion lay the ites ice and branches. 
Each cake as it reached the barrier, suddenly was thrown up on 
edge, only to sink down again and be forced under the ic 
they came out again at the Falls. ere they rushe 
dam like a | miniature Niagara, t the yellow. waters white with foam, 
an instant only in the leaping waters, then hurrying down to the 
Zoological Park. , 
Dame Nature has been out with her pruning shears, breaking 
and casting away weak and useless branches, before gee 
her new growth for the year. She is far quicker than th 
ployes of the Park department with their iachers, ropes and saws, 
and usually spares the lower branches. 
n the hemlock grove the wind has been holding high seas 
tossing dead limbs about, pattering down the needles of the 
ocks, and scattering their seeds, which flocks of gee are 
busily picking from the ground. The shady ledges of the rocks 
are still covered here and there with sheets of ice, but the water is 
tinkling beneath, and bubbles of air show where they are dis- 
lodging from their precarious hold. Who can tell what seeds 
and spores are carried away from heir winter resting place b 
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individuals are stranded by the waters at their highest, to fertilize 
and multiply in new places? The paths are either stiff with frost 
