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 Happy New Year! You know why the seed companies send out their catalogs this time every year? They know this is about the time we gardeners start to get green thumb disorder. We crave growing things, yes, but we also love sunshine and the heat that goes with it. My advice, just plow through it.

  Editor’s note: The following was written by Francis P. Church and was first published in The New York Sun in 1897. Church married shortly after the editorial appeared. He died in April, 1906, leaving no children.

 You now have less than 120 hours to finish your holiday preparations. That may be plenty for some and not nearly enough for others.