Evening star., 1932-12-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E, TRACEWELL.

watching the gradual emergence Of the
countryside from beneath its white
blanket.
It was sort Of slow-motion picture,
with the familiar roads and fields and
their own again after o kind OF ab-
Sence for a week.
Out in the suburban areas the snow
was never sullied very much, except for
the trade marks of the dogs. Mostly
it remained the way snow should look
white.
Scarcely tinge Of gray had touched
It when It began to disappear. Friday
night a great deal of the remaining
layer melted away.
How does snow melt into the earth
after all? Does 1t begin at the bottom
and thus gradually melt down into the
ground? Or does the top Of 1t, under
the influence of sun and warm winds
melt first, and trickle down to the
colder layers beneath, helping to melt
them?
Our guess Is that the former Is the
way snow melts. Probably it doesn't
make much difference, after all, which
way it melts, just 50 1t melts. Thus
the stuff goes and at the same time
furnishes much-needed moisture in the
going.
It is a real pleasure to watch the
return OF the old landmarks after they
have bsen submerged.
The bench which sits out by the
garage in Summer and Winter had beer
bereft OF its legs, seemingly, but now
once more it has 'em.
The fence with It's twisted rose vines
becomes a foot higher-or, since its
gain is at the bottom, q foot lower
when the snow melts away.
Lilac bushes planted last Spring, only
few feet at that time, dwindled alarm
ingly beneath the white blanket Of the
snow.
Now once more these sturdy little
bushes appear at their proper height.
1t will be in order to make a close
inspection to see II the cold has nippeo
any of the branches. New bushes are
inclined to feel the effects OF severe
cod the first Winter after tran. planting
The amateur gardener will feel that
! transplanting never helped anything
Maybe the nursery people know how
to perform this operation to the beneh,
Of the plant, but the average home
gardener does not possess the knack.
It will be better for him to select
carefully the place he wants shrub tc
go, In order that he may not have tt
| move it again. There Is a great dea
more to the operation Of transplantint
than appears to the eye 1t Is expert.
ence And experience is something yol
can't get out of books. You have te
go out and get 1t.
There is many a gardener who never
read book, but who has had SO much
experience with plants that he knows
just what to do with them at all times
how to handle them. when to trans.
plant them. He might not even know
the name Of the plant under his hand
but he knows everything else about i
and can make it do his bidding in &
way that is absolutely uncanny to the
novice.
It is a well known fact that feal
has an irimical influence that Is why
doctors do not fear disease, why dog
trainers refuse to fear dogs. Probably
| even the mute plants have some way o.
apprehending when gardener is atralc
of them and as result lose confidence
themselves and do poorly for him. This
Will appear strange only to those who
have not thought about the relation
ships of all the kin in the great uni
versal brotherhood Of living things. The
same laws prevail through all the king
OOlIlS. Inc SdIle Thought patterns dlt
repeated endlessly through million
forms. The same basic ideas crop uI
at the extremes of creation. Man sum.
up all the rest. is able to know him.
self and the rest; perhaps all are re-
fected in him, and whatever is part Of
his being is part Of every other being
in however strange a form it may seem
to him. or indeed, even if it be in
visible to him.