The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-26
THE CHARMS OF SPRING.
GARDEN MAKING IN DANBURY--INTEREsTIN
| PARTICULARS OF THE PROCESS.
[From the Danburv Ne,os.l

[From the Danbury Ne,os.1
We suppose there's is time that come to
every man when he feels he should like to
have garden. II he takes such notion he
will tell his wife oft. This is the fist
mistake he makes, and the ground thus
lost is never fully recovered. She draws her
chair to his, ard lays one hand on his knee.
and purses up her lips into whistle OF ex-
pectation-the vixen-and tells about her
mothers garden. and how nice it is to have
vegetables fresh from the vines every morn
ing, and she will go right out ana plan the
whole thing herself. Aud SO she does. He
takes his spade-and works himself into pre-.
sriration, and she tramps around under q
frightful sunbo nnet. and gets under his feet
and shrieks at the worms, and loses her shoe;
and makes him first vexed and .hen mad and
then ferocious. After the garden is spaded
he gets the seed, and finds she has been
thoughtful enoughto open the papers. and
empty thirteen varieties of different yegeta-
bles into one dish. This leads him to step
outdoors where he communes with nature
alone fora moment Then he takes up the
seed and hoe, and line. end two pegs, and
starts for the garden. And then she puts on
that awful bonnet, and brings up the rear
with e long handled rake, and pocket full
of beans and petunia seed and dahia buds.
While he is planting the corn, sic stands on
the cucumber hills, and rakes over the seed
nay Thnn oh. 49, n
hel shoulder, and the rake teeth into his
hair, and walks over the other beds. He
don't find the squash seed until he moves,
and then he digs them out of the earth with
his thumb She plants the beet seed
herself. putting about! two feet of earth and
sod upon them. Then she takes advantage
of his absorption in other matters, and puts
down the petunia seed in one spot, and af-
terward digs them up, and puts them down
IN another place. The beans she conceaJs
in earth wherever she can find place, and
puts the bulbs in the cucumber hills. Then
she tips over the seed pan again, and apologi
zies, and steps on two of the best tomato
plants, and says, "Oh my % which In no
way resembles what he says. About this
ime she discovers a better place for the ne
tuna seed, but having forgotten where she
last put them, she proceeds to find them,
and within an increditable brief of time
succeeds in unearthng pretty much every-
lining that has been put down, After con.
iuslng things SO there is no earthly POSSIBLE
lty OF ever unraveing them, she says the sun
Is Killing her, and goes over 10 the fence
where she stands for hours, telling the wo-
men n, xt door about an aunt of hers who
was confined TO her bed for eleven wears
and had eight doctors from the city, but
nothing would give herany relief until an
old lady--but you have heard it before The
next day man comes o his office TO get the
pay for patent seed sower which his wife
has ordered, and he no more than gets away
before the patentee of a new lawn mover
comes in with an order for ten dollars, and
be in turn is followed by the cornsheller
man, and the miserable gardner starts for
home to head off the robbers, and finds his
wife atthe gate with his own hat on, and
just about TO close o bargain with a smooth
faced individual for two hundred dollar
moving machine, aud pearl-Landled, ivory
mounted hay cutter. He first knocks the
agricultural implement agent on the head,
and then drags the miserable woman into
the house, and locking the door gives himself
up to his emotions