Home › Seed-Time and Harvest: October › Seed-Time and Harvest: October

Seed-Time and Harvest: October

So, you see, it's an interesting game, merely on the amusement side of it, this telling trees by their leaves; and, as October is the month when the art galleries of the woods exhibit their finest productions, we might well devote this chapter also to a special study of leaves, but we shall take them up again in March when we deal, among other things, with why the Aspen leaves tremble so; again in April, when the rains have brought the venturesome early buds into full leafhood; and again in May, when some of the leaves -- the chosen ones -- have brightened into flowers.

Yet, while its leaves are about as important in the life of a tree as leaves are in the life and purpose of a book, there are other things just as necessary to know about, from a practical standpoint; and one of these, the gathering and care of the seed, is particularly appropriate for October, the typical harvest-month of the year.