Winchell, Kate

About the Author, Suzanna Susquehanna Not much is known about Suzanna. She may have written this poem: Natural Christmas Tree* A botanist naturalist would relish it all, Flowers in springtime and tree leaves in fall. He'd use weird words, big words, describing them, too, Words that are foreign to me and to you. "Pseudotsuga macrocarpa" he'd write, When "Douglas Fir Pine Tree" is all he'd need type. A botanist naturalist most surely would gag, To see a fir tree with a red for-sale tag. Irresponsibly, he'd feel, it had been cut down, Wrenched roughly from nature, and taken to town. Never to grow...