Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
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"If we sod down these beds here what will Roger do for his sweetpeas? They ought to have the sun on both sides; the fence line wouldn't be the best place for them." "Sweetpeas ought to be planted on chicken wire supported by stakes and running from east to west," said Margaret wisely, "but under the circumstances, I don't see why you couldn't fence in the vegetable garden with sweetpeas. That would give you two east and west lines of them and two north and south." "And there would be space for all the blossoms that Roger would want to pick on a summer's day," laughed Della. "I've always wanted to have a garden of all pink flowers," announced Dorothy. "My room in the new house is going to be pink and I'd like to keep pink powers in it all the time." "I've always wanted to do that, too. Let's try one here," urged Ethel Brown, nodding earnestly at Ethel Blue. "I don't see why we couldn't have a pink bed and a blue bed and a yellow bed," returned Ethel Blue whose inner eye saw the plants already well grown and blossoming. "A wild flower bed is what I'd like," contributed Helen. "We mustn't forget to leave a space for Dicky," suggested Roger. "I want the garden I had latht year," insisted a decisive voice that |
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