Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-14


term at school and come home, where
| could get we'll making flower gar
dens? That was the very day father
came for me with the news that this
house in the suburbs was ours. I
same on to find snow everywhere and
no possible chance to do anything but
plan. Just when things began to get
sunny father was called away on this
t1resome business trip. Through my
conscientious efforts mothers life was
made nightmare until she got father
to send long list of instructions and
plans for the garden
Il started that very day in earnest.
Father wrote: Have the garden spaded
and arranged according to these plans,
and when come Doris can do all the
planting under my Instructions L
can see his smile as he wrote that.
What will he say to this, wonder?
You see, had already made plans
Of my own. He had sent for lots
of horticulturists' magazines and in
one of them l found a glorious plan
Tor formal garden-just the size of
ours. OF course father wasn't spe-
:ially interested in the flower side of
1t at all. He is so crazy over sweet
corn and summer squashes that he
can't think of other things. When
ne told me how much of the ground
could be mine kept the plan to N.Y.
self. for there seemed such oceans of
time to discuss it. After he went
south talked it over with mother,
and she wrote him about some of my
plans. That was why he sent his.
So we started in, making every now
and then few changes that didn't
really matter.
Mother protested for a time, but
she hasn't said word for week
not since | started to dig the pool for
my irises and goldfish. Yes, that's it.
IN the center will be bank of gravel,
| out there will be mud bottom for the
!ong roots. And l had pipes laid, so
/ here will be continual flow of water
/ across the pool. OF course there is
The water tax to think of, as mother
| says, but maybe we can get special
| rate, since we want to use so much
water. Most things are cheaper at
wholesale. you know
Along the sunny fence I've planted
! nollyhocks and cosmos and coreopsis,
because they make amicable com
rades when shoulder to shoulder as
my book says. Fathers corn was to
have been, there, but it can go some
where else just as we'll and think of
the difference in the looks-and on
he most prominent side of the yard,
100!
The beds all circle about the iris
pool and the paths are to be of grass,
with four-foot border with sweet
alyssum. pansies and foliage plants,
lust like the parks. And there are my
poppy beds-'nymphs even in the
leart of fowerdom, my book calls
hem.
That pillar? Oh, that is my sun
Hal. Isn't it sweet? | had to have
one, for this article says: About the
sundial clusters all the romance OF
The ages. 1t is enveloped in an atmo-
| sphere OF poetry.
Mother and had our most serious
discussion over that bed on the north
side of the yard. have to wait for
father before | shall know about nv
summer house. There | shall serve
Tea, with rambler roses and clematis
and wisteria climbing all about! Fa-
ther had selected that side for his
asparagus beds aAd they were already
started, so yielded to mother in that.
love asparagus. don't you? And if
must do without the summer house
I'll have the vines over the porch, as
mother suggested.
Other vegetables? Well, yes, ia.
Their wants them, and | am worried
to think where he can put them.
Why, he even wanted pumpkins and
cantaloups. ! have left a bed for
lettuce and radishes and such pretty
things as that The book advised it,
AS for the rest. we can buy all the
vegetables we want from the truck
farmers around, | inquired about
that
Il
plan. II will be such a nice surprise
for him, | think. Besides, it is so com
plicated that he couldn't have under.
stood it in a letter. did write about
moving the tomato beds away from
my hollyhocks and he telegraphed me
to let them alone. SO that discour
aged me.
Il have suggestion, though. If he
can't find room for his corn here, why
can't he buy this empty lot next tc
us? He could have regular farm
there. He is coming home tonight
and that is the first thing want tc
talk to him about. Don't you think
he'd like all that space for vege
| tables?"