The Washington herald., 1909-06-06


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along the walk lent to the W Deg lutHE
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the spinach and the parsley ~szsSS~l -
were just enough separated
so as not to be mistaken one I'VE cleaned up a :
for the other.
There is no grass to cut, In
this back yard. In event that we should want to
hang out a wash constructed viaduct from post
to post which be taken up, behind and laid
again before, as one proceeds from clothes pin to
clothes pin-thus avoiding stepping upon the pro-
duce
And aside from the beauty of the arrangement,
it is practical. We got everything in Not seed
nor plant presented to us neglected.
Now after the fashion set by Wilkie Collins and
other popular writer's, / will desist and let some
body else take the narrative-n this case the Lady
Who Didn't Decline (and who won't decline now
for she is Of the sex that is always ready to
speak,.
A PRn 16-Everything is in! Poor dear Edwin
a has worked so hard, and is quite cross with the
gloves, cream white to garden with, when there Is
anything to garden
April 17--Nothing has come UP yet
April 1S-Nothing has up yet.
April 19-Something has come up We think rad
ishes or lettuce; but Edwin has lost the paper
plan. / know it he. although he OF course
April 20--Something more has come up.
April 21-Lots of things are coming up. We are
very excited / my gloves when / so
out 70 look.
April 22--The garden is growing fast. / have
new garden frock of striped nurses gingham, cut
short-waisted and with twenty-eght buttons down
the back and nine ruffles around the skirt Edwin
has to rise at three in the morning to button me
into II and get any gardening done too.
April 23-We fear that those things are weeds
Isn't that horrid?
April 24-The milkman and the Iaundryman and
Mrs. Smith think that they weeds.
April 2S--They weeds, except one radish
which got over into the pumpkin patch, and some
lettuce which got over where the cucumbers were
planted We guess that the wind or birds did it,
May 5--The garden is wonderful. Everything is
up except the spinach Cat least we think 1t is the
spinach), the parsnips 1--WE think 1t is the par
snips), the Two Weeks beans and the Early Pip
pin peas. The tomato plants put in too early
and they are frosted, and caught my new garden
dress on a gooseberry thorn and tore It, Garden
ing is most distressfu My gloves have
shrunk.
May 6--I pulled up a radish plant today. 1t had
a teeny radish on. and ate it. Oh, what great
privilege to be supplied with ones own vegetables
How differently they taste!
May 1O-Our radishes fine and big top
the ground, but something holds them back, under
the ground. The groceryman says that we water
them too much and gave them too much fertilizer.
But love little garden and cannot bear to
neglect any part of it.
MAY 1--we have lettuce. I cut some today
with the kitchen scissors, which made it taste ker
oseney, because the scissors had trimmed lamp
wicks. But we did not
May 20-Very busy cutting lettuce and watch
ing Edwin weed Lettuce Is all we have yet, and
have tried every salad know of so as to use it.
We have salad at each meal and before we go
to bed
There were four. Our radish patch continued puny
under ground to the very last pulled; but the
tops have been splendid. Edwin says that they
reminded him of small man in stove-ppe hat.