The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-06
NATURE WISELY .ows AND N1rxsa.
Her Seed Time and Harvest gro One, ana
Her Flowers are Not Frost-killcd.

Her Flowers are Not Frost-kiIlcd.
Nature Is harvesting now upon tho edges OF
New York. and this process. like most OF ma
turo's doinGs. Is both beautiful and curious.
Men gather not grapes OF thorns. nor figs Of
thstles. but nature takes q harvest not only OF
thorns and thistles. but OF n hundred other
unpromisine plants. Oddly enough. too. seed
time and harvest are ono seuson with nature.
for by her own ingenious labor-saving devices
she escapes the human necessity for garnerinR
her treasures into shares and stacks and cribs
and barns and bins. She patiently waits until
her fields are white to the harvest. never fear
Ing that her laborers will be few. and scatters
the ripened seed by the agency OF her obedient
servants. the wind. tho rain. the frost. tho fowls
Of tho air. the beasts OF the field. and even BY
the aid OF unwilling man him elf. Never u
breath stirs in mid-autumn without sending
abroad part OF natures harvest to DO sown
against the needs Of next year Every hrd
that migrates north or south carries some
part OF natures harvest to be set down in
places near or distant. Mover man. woman.
or child ventures into natures domain with
out coming forth to bear In person one gar.
ment.clinRing burr or pricking needle charged
with the business OF sowing some seed.
Natures harvest Of wild clemats hangs in
fully misty. smoky b3lls all over the, wood
chester. The harvest is only less beautiful
than the blossom; indeed not less beautiful
hep i5s with frost era ssas
clematis harvest over acres and miles. The
milkweed is also ripe 70 the harvest, and az
spring blossom. rs PODS have hurst now. and
the cracks d!sc9.e i2nG; S SndG rS Sen.
feather feather Ata liit,lo distance tie cone looks =
smooth whole snr,are, , tts s MeIeeifi
insects ~ neatly laprod ono over the other. II
you choose to make yourself one 81 natures
n1vessrs ma SO. .S"Tf. Hat %.ch 1y ts eFI in
sectko sc,I" !, scii . ITI..t SEQ aass1
Wits s?ssaqpar rcfr"etn- liz aunlisht into
,iIisturiel Iy nature, various servunts the
t sHs's s '@l me- " r"nan folicd 1ndcrn cath
shake the cone in pieces. however, toss it's
a . brod each ' tiny rasset I sssa
into space - 10 sowp where the wind will.
ing devices hat natu has. Some are even
moro beautiful and ingenious quite as IN.
moro beautiful than that marvellous destroyer
Of agricultural romance. II you would learn
n t S q ana soGf 80
bare among tho pungent smelling ashes q
Of acorns. hundreds more OF hick"rY nuts. and.
stranger sin, gallons OF chestnus mat have
esso"nSd the Keen &c eyes and d",t nf"tT OF
migrant Italian peasants cau,r'l In ms land
Hero and there "a bog dried hy to inng
ton o. '!re.and stick thrust deer tnt1tn" root
nett.d leaf mould shows that sumhhnG los-
sensing many properties OF peat my Ia uue
in suburban woodlands.
Nature.ty provision that eyouti1u'''S pro-
Tess 10 Understand. seems never to nING the
mistake of leaving her blossoms Out ~ uogfs
late enough for them to meet death at ma
hands OF tho frost. Only ai'w days Sthce Two
sharp frost s.with only one MI. night ht,wteh;
slew ali the INSTITUTIONS IN sod spots and
many OF the maricolds bur spared the chrys'
anthemums These things whro OF human
planting. But natures frw s3rriiirS bios
SONS. here and there "a golden rod or an as'"r.
came braycly through no ordcHl: AZ TO more
delicate blossoms. they long ago fulfilled thell
and the frost can do no more Than
aid In the harvest and sowing.