THE LURE OF THE GARDEN 
with orchids and air-plants. Best of all, you can begin 
to grow your annuals while without winter still com¬ 
mands the earth. The fascination of fooling tiny 
seedlings into the belief that spring has far outpaced 
them is one of the gardener’s most pleasing deceptions. 
Up they rush in a panic, sticking their little leaves 
right and left into the humid atmosphere, hurrying 
into life with the haste of children rushing out to play. 
And then those earliest days of the real spring, 
irretrievably lost to you unless you know your garden 
in winter. Those extraordinary, evanescent impres¬ 
sions, spirit-like in their impalpability, but unmistak¬ 
able as the voice of the beloved. It is impossible to 
cry, “ Lo, here!” or, “ Lo, there!” There is no pre¬ 
cise moment upon which to clap a word or lay a hand. 
But on a sudden morning spring has come into your 
garden, creation is hard at work, the burgeoning trees 
and imminent flowers press on the consciousness . . . 
and winter yields to her immortal sister in a sun- 
illumined shower. 
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