ATLAS CRESTS FOR SALE 
     
    
   
   
    
     For all those who want to proudly display the fact that they support the 
     
     Maritimes Breeding Bird Atlas, a shoulder patch has been made-up that depicts 
     
     their logo - a Black-throated Green Warbler. This handsome three colour crest 
     
     is embroidered with a burgundy border and lettering with a green bird on a 
     
     yellow background. 
     
    

    
     The purchase of this crest is 
     
     a great way to support the Atlas, 
     
     both financially and visibly. For 
     
     only $3 ($5 for 2), the Atlas 
     
     staff will send you one of these 
     
     crests, postage and handling 
     
     included. Order now as there are 
     
     only 150 and they expect them to 
     
     go fast. The actual crest is about 
     
     8 centimeters (3 inches for those 
     
     of us still in English) in 
     
     diameter. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     WINTER CAN BE A LITTLE HARROHING by Evelyn Meader 
     
    
   
   
    
     With the arrival of the snow and frost filled months the gardener's 
     
     weeding and watering chores drift toward scraping and shovelling duties. 
     
     Instead of onions, squash and potatoes filling the wheelbarrow, its snow blobs, 
     
     chunks and mounds loading a large scoop. The harrow is stored with the hoe but 
     
     nevertheless harrowing is still a facet of life blasted with attacks of 
     
     freezing rain and blizzard snows. 
     
    

    
     Just to keep the growth syndrome percolating I don't stop gardening cold 
     
     turkey when the calendar reads "December". The cultivating addiction is not 
     
     easily weeded out. 
     
    

    
     Each fall two of my cherry tomato plants are relocated from the garden, in 
     
     roomy pots, to the south facing glass door by our deck. Here they sprout toward 
     
     the ceiling like Jack's giant-finding bean stalk. All winter they produce 
     
     sweet, red edible gems. We call the regulars "Tiny Tims" and the miniatures 
     
     "Wee Wendys" after our friends of differing stature, Tim and Wendy McCoy. 
     
    

    
     We have other potted munchies. I can still hear a luncheon guest 
     
     exclaiming, as I chopped some parsley and snipped some chives from my two 
     
     kitchen window pots into a salad, "She's feeding us house plants now!" The 
     
     African violets escape a salad safari. The pigeOn plant, never wingy, just 
     
     hangs loose. The spider plants, if they lived up to their name, could have a 
     
     feast of cluster flies on warm days. If you listened carefully you might hear 
     
     them say, "Time's fun when you're having flies." 
     
    

    
     In the basement, in more south facing windows, are ten blooming pots. 
     
     Geraniums, carnations and one grapefruit tree will move back outside come June. 
     
     Snow season cultivation means, watering and feeding the plants, weeding out 
     
     stray grasses, trimming dead leaves, tasting tiny tomatoes and waiting for 
     
     incarcerated spring to be sprung. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PRESIDENT URGES “CLEAN UP THE BEACHES" 
     
    
   
   
    
     Patrick Nootton, the President of the Natural History Society, suggested 
     
     that the Society become involved with a "Clean up the Beaches" campaign this 
     
    
   
   
    
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