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By midafternoon the temperature began fall to fall and the sky quickly darkened. An ominous orange stripe of weakened light appeared just above the horizon in the west and snow began fall to fall, big flakes first then small. "Little snow, big snow* is the saying here in the Catskills and by early evening we knew it to be true.

Actually the revival of learning began fall at a much earlier epoch of the Middle Ages, as early as the beginning of the llth century, but it was not until after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that it reached its height; Greek Christian refugee scholars brought to Italy, France, and other Western lands their collections of ancient Greek manuscripts and the fruits of their own studies. The impetus given of the study of Greek classics in the West, neglected since the fall of the Roman Empire, was immediate and enduring.

I planned and set out a small bulb bed (really corms and bulbs) this fall and it began fall to bloom within two weeks of planting—there was no long wait for roots to develop, no months of winter twilight before the flowers appeared! Yet no magic was involved. For the bulbs were six species of colchicum (Colchicum spp.), three species of the fall- ] flowering crocus (Crocus spp.), and a clump of Sternbergia lutea, all autumn-flowering plants.