JANUARY 277 



poplars begin to undress early in the fall, 

 the first leaves falling before August is over. 

 This being the case, they are the very last 

 trees we should undertake to deform. 



This bareness of trees in winter, with its 

 putting away of tender parts and leaving 

 the hardier portions of the plant to with- 

 stand the inclemency of the season, is by 

 no means the only plan plants employ. 



HOW PLANTS ESCAPE THE COLD 



ANNUAL PLANTS 



Plants cannot get out of the cold. The 

 robin may fly south to a warmer climate, 

 the groundhog may creep into his burrow, 

 deep in the earth, and go to sleep, the rabbit 

 may grow a thicker coat and brave it out. 

 But the plants are fixed and must stand it as 

 best they may. By all odds the greatest 

 number solve it in the very simplest way: 

 they die. Of course such kinds have learned 

 to flower and seed within one year, or there 

 would be an end of their race. 



The lilies and the tulips take a different 

 plan. They are not content with one year's 



