Evening star., 1932-11-14

Winter may be on the way. but thai
is no reason for forgetting the garden
because yards are around every home
and will remain sohdly there unit
Spring comes this way again.
The high points and the outlines o.
gardens still exist. The trees, the
shrubs, the evergreens, the delightful
barberry hedges. the lawns, these still
please the gardening mind and heart.
On every side throughout the length
and breadth of the National Capital
including its integral communities oi
nearby Maryland and Virginia. the eye
is greeted by the beauties of flourish.
ing Nature.
Dogwoods, naples, oaks, haunt theil
brightly colored leaves. Even witherec
flower stalks and foliage of departed
ANIMALS have a certain picturesque
quality, since nothing in Nature is really
ugly.
Nature in the raw is not necessarily
harsh or coarse, as many a gardener
knows as he looks over his garden a.
this time of year and sees and sense.
the subtle changes which have come
over 1t.
Indeed. Nature in the raw often is su-
premely mellow, to which fact the glo'
rious foliage in Rock Creek Park anc
The very rustic of the fallen leave.
has something soothing about it, some.
thing which tends to mufhe the harsh
footballs of civilized man, as he wander:
through the woods. down some marrow
pathway cut out of the underbrush BY
the feet of many generations.
Perhaps there is no season more de-
lightful for walking through the slight
ly hilly regions in and around Wash.
ington. There is something to be seer
and appreciated at every step of the
way now.
Formerly one could not see the wood.
for the trees as the old saying has it
but now new vistas are opened up or
every hillside and through every one oi
our dells and hollows.
Fallen tree trunks, to be met with
everywhere in the woods. nestle in beds
of leaves, dried on top, sodden beneath
as the result of the seasonal rains oi
recent days.
How welcome those many drops oi
water have been to the earth and the
assorted children Of the earthl
Let him who grumbles at the gloomy
skies Of rainy days think now and then
of the need for water. There are rivers
and lakes to be filled and springs to be
replenished.
Manmade reservoirs need the admin
istration Of the clouds They need to
be filled with plenty-the plenty of a
new deal after the drought of the past
three years.
The creatures of the woods, including
both animals and plants of all kinds
are thankful for the water which has
been given to them so profusely during
the past month.
Every slight hollow is alive. although
that fact may not show, exactly, on the
surface. But there are millions of small
growing things, both animal and vege-
table, in them; there are the Winter
eggs" of veritable multitude Of crea-
lures, all Of them unknown to the aver
age person, Just as they are unseen by
him.
The layman must make a special
study of the life of still ponds and small
streams before he can begin to appre-
ciate the teeming ways of Nature, OF
understand in even the least elementary
manner a world of living things far diff
ferent from his own.
Water is the friend, the very lifeblood,
as 1t were, Of all Of them Most of them
have gone to sleep now for the cold
season. Cold blooded, they do not need
food for warmth, for Nature has planned
them upon an entirely different idea.
AS cold overtakeS them, instead oi
eating more, they eat less Their vari-
Gus functions slow down, literally freeze
down. without particular hurt to the
creature
In this category. as every owner of a
lily pool knows, come the goldfshes
These interesting and colorful animals
may be fed in the Summer pool as often
as once a day or, better, once every
other day.
When cold clutches at the surface Of