StNicholas [serial] . 1\ ature and <J( •e and Ocience Tor Young FolKs ed fay Edward r-Bifffclow. LAST FLOWERS AND FRUITS. But still, if you are a skilful gleaner, you may get manya pocketful even of grafted fruit, long after apples are sup-posed to be gone out-of-doors. I know a Blue-Pearmaintree, growing within the edge of a swamp, almost as goodas wild. You would not suppose that there was any fruit leftthere, on the first survey, but you must look according tosystem. — Thoreau. In the above quotation from Thoreaus essay onWild Apples the author suggests to us howcareful must be our searc
StNicholas [serial] . 1\ ature and <J( •e and Ocience Tor Young FolKs ed fay Edward r-Bifffclow. LAST FLOWERS AND FRUITS. But still, if you are a skilful gleaner, you may get manya pocketful even of grafted fruit, long after apples are sup-posed to be gone out-of-doors. I know a Blue-Pearmaintree, growing within the edge of a swamp, almost as goodas wild. You would not suppose that there was any fruit leftthere, on the first survey, but you must look according tosystem. — Thoreau. In the above quotation from Thoreaus essay onWild Apples the author suggests to us howcareful must be our search if we would find the. THE CLOSED GENTIAN. autumn; and this suggestion as toation applies with equal point andfinding of other late fruits andBy mid-November nearly all the leaveshave fallen from the trees, and we see open, un-obstructed vistas, in place of the summers droop-ing shade; yet we come to a garden that has beenso searched and rifled, to a storehouse and boardwhere so many have been fed, that only by sharpobservation will we find many of these late flow-ers and fruits. One after another the great flocksof migrating birds have regaled themselves here,and found a sufficiency to sustain them in theirlong, southward journey, and few indeed havebeen the berries and fruits to escape their sharpeyes. While these feathered guests were feedingin the trees, the squirrels and mice were just asbusily gathering their winter store beneath, andlater came the frost to take what these had keen winds withered the apples where theyhung, broke down the stalked berries and fruits,and coldly touched the linge
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