The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-06-13


the rest snow Lavender and bright
scarlet Is rather a daring color
scheme, isn't it"
Not if it's the right scarlet" /
replied. "But it's not the color I'm
going to copy. Neither is it the moon
bridges in this other temple garden.
| It's the simplicity. Out here south
of this room is my lawn and garden.
| Now / want it to be a real garden,
| but | don't want it to dwarf the land
| scape. | don't want it to look as II
| I'd bought a half acre of Italy and
| deposited it in the middle Of Massachu-
| sets, either. I've never seen a pic
| ture of a real Japanese garden yet
| that didn't look as much like a natu-
raj japanese landscape as a garden.
| | want my garden to be an extension
| of my south room which will some
| how frame the real landscape be-
| You'd"
| We went through the glass door,
and | showed her where the grape ar
| Dor was to be, at the western side of
| the lawn, and how a lane of holly
hooks would lead to it from the per-
| COLA end, screening the kitchen win
| dows and the yet-to-be-built hotbeds
Now" said |, I'm going to build
a rambler rose trellis along the south;
| there's your red against the lavender
| of the far hills at sunset! But how
shall the trellis be designed, and
where shall the sundial be, and where
| the flower beds?'
The girl clapped her hands. ooh,
| the fun of planning it all out from
the beginningr' she cried. MY, but
l envy you"
'Please don't envy; advise" said I.
ooh, l can't. l don't know any
| thing about gardens"
but you know what you like.
People always say that when they
are ignorant, don't they?"
Don't be nasty" she replied, run
| ming down the plank from the terrace
| to the lawn, and walking out to the
center. I'D have the sundial right
in the middle, where it gets all the
sum- she said, because it seems to
me a dial ought to be in the natural
| focus point of the light. Then I'd
ring it with flowers, some low, few
fairly tall. all bright colors, or maybe
| white, and the beds not too regular.
| Then, right in line with the door, I'd
nave an arch in the trellis so you
could see through into the farm. Oh.
[ know! I'd have the trellis all
arches, with a bigger one in the CEN
@n~ u
aqueduct of roses!'
"A Roman aqueduct of roses" | re-
| peated, my imagination fired by the
| picture, walking across the end of my
| green lawn, with the farm and the far
| hills glimpsed beneath! 'Rome's ghost
since her decease' Miss Goodwin, you
| are wonder! But can you build it?
NO. she sighed, II can only give you
the derivation of 'aqueduct' and
| rose''
Come" said 1. 1--WE will consult
Hard Cider"
"Heavens!" she laughed. SIS that
anything like Dutch courage?"
| Hard grunted, and came with us to
the line of stakes where the rose trellis
was to be. / sketched roughly the idea
wanted--a reproduction in simple
trellis work, as it were, of High bridge,
New York.
Hard pondered a moment and then
departed for the she'd returning WITH
several pieces of trellis lumber, a
spade, some tools, small roll Of
chicken wire and stepladder all on
wheelbarrow. At his direction, | dug
a post hole and soon had the first
! arch of my aqueduct.
| "And now" l said to the girl at nv
side, shall we see If we can build the
next arch?"
Again she clapped her hands delight
! edly, and ran with me around the
| house for the tools and lumber
| let her dig the first post hole, though
| it was evident that the effort tired her,
and then l took the spade away. while
| she marked off the trellis strips into
| the proper lengths and sawed them up.
| placing each strip across the wheelbar-
row and holding it in place first with
hand which looked quite inadequate
even for that small task, and, when the
| hand failed. with her foot.
She laughed as she put her foot on
| the wheelbarrow, hitching her skirt up
| where 1t bound her knee. The new
skirts weren't made for carpenters"
| she said, as she jabbed away with the
| saw. | darted a glance at the display
| of trim ankles. and resumed my dig
| ging in the post holes. This was new
| and disturbing distraction in agricul-
| tural toll!
| The post holes were soon dug, and
while | held the posts, she adjusted the
level against them, our hands and faces
close together, and we both kicked the
dirt in with our feet. Then l climbed
| on the stepladder and leveled the top
piece, which | nailed down. Then.
| while ! was cutting a semicircle out of
the wire. for the arch, she nailed the
trellis strips across the piers, graspins
the hammer halfway up to the head,
and frowning earnestly as she tapped
with little, short, jablike blows. She
was SO intent on this task that l
laughed aloud.
what are you laughing at?' said
She
YOU" said I. You drive a nail as
If 1t were an abstruse problem In diff