WINTER WONDER 
branch shakes off a handful of its radiant robe, that 
falls with a crash and thud, while the bough springs 
up into place. The high tree-tops still glitter in the 
western light, but down in the garden the purple 
shadows have run close together, and a faint mist 
begins to form above the snow, where it lies like a 
veil. . . . 
Where you are fortunate enough to be able to stay 
within sight of your garden the year round, you will 
find many things that can be planted to enhance the 
winter beauty, even in our cold climate. In England, 
particularly in the south, monthly roses have a flower 
or two as late as January, and in February the crocus 
lights its golden lamps and the snowdrop swings her 
bells. 
The harmonies of green possible in a plantation of 
firs and pines prove an unending joy. In Kentucky 
this “ green planting” for winter has attained consider¬ 
able vogue. A flaming note is lent by the cardinal, 
and the snow-buried evergreens, the tall hedges, and 
the smooth lawn-levels, with the swift crimson passing 
of the brilliant bird, make an unforgetable picture. 
Where it is possible to have a greenhouse, the en¬ 
chantment of slipping from the biting cold into the 
warm, moist atmosphere laden with flower perfumes 
and that mossy fragrance peculiar to conservatories, is 
hard to overestimate. There, of course, you can culti¬ 
vate winter roses and violets, or indulge your fantasy 
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