"Which is my side? Oh, what's that in the center--that tall plant? What
are those vines? What will we have in those littlest pots? Oh, I know
what those are! Those are morning-glories! Oh, goody!"
[Illustration: DAVY'S WINDOW PRUE'S WINDOW]
The last was from Prue, when she saw the artist putting the flowers
along the vines that he had made climbing up the sides of her window.
"Yes," said the Chief Gardener, "those are morning-glories. You can
have two vines in each pot, if you wish, and in that way get four
colors--blue, white, purple, and pink. On Davy's side I have made
climbing beans--scarlet and white runners--because they are very
pretty, and also very good to eat. Davy's is a vegetable, and yours a
flower, garden. Then, if Davy wants some flowers, and you get hungry,
you can give him flowers for vegetables."
"Oh, that will be playing 'market,' won't it? I just love to play
'store' and 'going to market.'"
"My beans look a good deal like Prue's morning-glories, all but the
flowers," said Davy.
"So they do, Davy; and they really look something the same in
the garden. The leaves are nearly the same shape, only that the
morning-glory's is more heart-shaped, and then beans have three leaves
to the stem instead of one. Sometimes I have taken a morning-glory for
a bean, just at first."
"What else have we?" asked Prue. "What are the little flowers, and the
big one in the center?"
If the Chief Gardener felt hurt because his pictures did not show just
what all the flowers were, without telling, he did not say so. He said:
"Well, in the center of your window, Prue, the big flower is made for a
sunflower. Not the big kind, but the small western sunflower, such as
we had along the back fence last summer. I think we can raise those in
the house."
"I just love those," nodded Prue.
"Then those two slender plants are sweet-pease on your side, and
garden-pease on Davy's. I put two in each window, because I know that
you love sweet-pease, while Davy is very fond of the vegetable kind."
"I'd like a whole bushel of sweet-pease!" said Prue.
"And I wish I had a bushel of eating pease!" said Davy, "and I know
that's sweet corn in the middle of my window. I just love it!"
"Yes," said the Chief Gardener, "and a little pot of radishes on one
side, and a pot of lettuce salad on the other. Do you think you like
that, Davy?"
"Can't I have strawberries, instead of the salad?" asked Davy.
"Strawberries don't bear from seed the first season, and I can't
remember any fruit that does, unless you call tomatoes fruit, and I
don't think a tomato vine would be quite pleasant in the house. It
doesn't always have a sweet odor."
"Oh, well, I can eat lettuce," said Davy. "I can eat anything that's
good."
"What are in my other little pots?" asked Prue for the third or fourth
time.
"Well, one is meant for a pot of pansies--"
"Oh, pansies! pansies! Can't I have two pots of pansies?"
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