222 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



compensations which Nature bestows when she 

 seems to have taken so much from our gar- 

 dens. 



And the old stone wall will be looking sear 

 and gray, but it will remind us to plan for 

 planting its crevices with all sorts of flower- 

 ing things for next Summer's adorning. Then 

 when another winter will have come to our 

 door we shall find the wall covered with a net- 

 work of vines and stems like a weaving of 

 silken threads of brown. 



DECEMBER 



I wonder if the time will come when every 

 man whose homeland boasts a few acres wiU 

 have a little vineyard? For those who have 

 their own vines it will be well to remember that 

 December should not pass without pruning 

 grapevines. It is so much better to do this 

 now, I think, than to wait until March, when 

 the winds of the first spring month will cer- 

 tainly subject the then-pruned vines to the risk 

 of damage. 



As there will be plenty of leisure for the 

 country dwellers in December they will do well 

 to utilize some of it in carefuUy inspecting all 



