DECEMBER. 
SERVICE TREE (Pyrus domestica). Prudence. 
ach plant and tree lias a character 
of its own. The giddy almond 
hastens to give her flowers to the 
Spring at the risk of having no 
fruit for the Autumn, while the 
service tree, which grows slowly, 
only bears fruit when it has 
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