In a pretty salad-dish on a little side table, there was a lettuce
salad that looked like a great green bloom, and lying upon another
smaller dish at the side, were four of the roundest, reddest radishes
imaginable, the very last of the little garden crop. But now something
came in in two small covered dishes, something that steamed, and
behold, when they were opened, in one were Davy's beans, ever so many,
white and mottled, all cooked and hot and ready to be eaten, and in the
other Davy's pease! But that was not all. Still another steaming dish
came in, and when that was opened, everybody fairly shouted, "Oh, my!"
for in that dish was Davy's corn! Think of it! Two whole ears of corn,
one large one to be divided between little Prue and Davy.
Never was there such a birthday dinner as that. The flowers were
beautiful, the beans and the pease splendid, while the corn, why the
corn was just the sweetest and best corn that was ever raised. They all
said so, and Davy got excited and said he was going to plant a thousand
acres of corn just as soon as the Chief Gardener would let him.
And then they began to plan for the new garden of summer-time, which
was to be made outside.
Most of their things they thought they would take out of the windows,
and reset in the open garden, but, of course, there were no radishes or
lettuce to take now, and the corn and pease were no longer of value,
while the vines would be hard to move. So they decided to take out
all but the vines. Prue could reset her pansies and nasturtiums and
sunflower, and the sweet-pease, which would bloom all summer, perhaps,
leaving the morning-glories and scarlet runner in the windows, to bloom
as long as they would.
"My windows would look very bare without even the vines left of the
little gardens," said big Prue, "but it is getting so green outside,
that we won't miss them so much now, and, of course, everything must
go, sometime."
"And we are going to have them next year," said Davy. "We will begin
then earlier, and have other things, too, but first we are going to
have ever and ever so much outside, in the real garden. Prue is going
to have flowers, and I am going to have, oh, ever and ever so many good
things to eat!"
And so with big Prue's birthday dinner, the little garden in the
windows saw its greatest glory, and the month of April, which had been
its happiest season, came to a happy end.
MAY
MAY
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SWEET-PEASE HAVE TO BE PUT DOWN PRETTY DEEP
IT was May and the apple-trees were in bloom. In the garden outside was
the Chief Gardener, with Prue and Davy--one on each side--hoeing and
digging and raking. The early plantings, like radishes and lettuce and
pease, were already well along, but it was just time, now, for a second
planting of these things, and for the first planting of such things as
corn and beans, and most of the kinds of flowers.
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