. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Supplement to Mome IRature=Stub^ Course Published by the Collegre of Agriculture of Cornell University, in October, December, February and April and Entered October I, 1904, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor New Series. Vol. II. ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER-JANUARY, 1905-6 No. 2 PLANT STUDY AH day it snows: the sheeted post Gleams in the dimness like a ghost; All day the blasted
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Supplement to Mome IRature=Stub^ Course Published by the Collegre of Agriculture of Cornell University, in October, December, February and April and Entered October I, 1904, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor New Series. Vol. II. ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER-JANUARY, 1905-6 No. 2 PLANT STUDY AH day it snows: the sheeted post Gleams in the dimness like a ghost; All day the blasted oak has stood A muffled wizard of the wood; Garland and airy cap adorn The sumach and the wayside thorn, The clustering spangles lodge and shine In the dark tresses of the pine. The ragged bramble, dwarfed and old, Shrinks like a beggar in the cold; In surplice white the cedar stands, And blesses him with priestly hands. — /. T. Trowbridge. E are wont to think of the winter largely as a human problem. It is a time when we are obliged to take greater care of ourselves lest we suffer from cold; and the long months when we can be out-of-doors comparatively little without hardship, are a serious drain upon our vitality. The winter is also a drain upon the purse, for we are obliged to clothe our- selves more warmly and, therefore, more expen- sively ; and the coal bills or the getting of the winter wood is no small itein in the economy of any household in this country of long winters. Few of us realize that to the plants of all this region also winter has proven a problem, which they have been obliged to solve or die. Certain it is that the wild plants have been obliged to adapt themselves to this long period of cold and inaction in order to preserve their species; their success is measured in one direction by their ability to cope with winter. In general there are two kinds of plant adaptations developed to meet this problem. One where the roots live on safely in the ground unaf
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