. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . \\ashin(; VI FOR Dinner see how they would grow, and when these became troublesomethey were pulled out. IV. WHEN SPRING COMES 7^ Tomatoes have delicate constitutions, and it is not till sometime after the garden was started that they are transplanted to then each plant has a shingle stuck up beside it to protectit from the noonday sun, and is watered regularly for severaldays. Now that the garden has been started, spring on the farmmay be said to be fairly under way, and things begin to settledown to their ordinary warm weather routine. I supp
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . \\ashin(; VI FOR Dinner see how they would grow, and when these became troublesomethey were pulled out. IV. WHEN SPRING COMES 7^ Tomatoes have delicate constitutions, and it is not till sometime after the garden was started that they are transplanted to then each plant has a shingle stuck up beside it to protectit from the noonday sun, and is watered regularly for severaldays. Now that the garden has been started, spring on the farmmay be said to be fairly under way, and things begin to settledown to their ordinary warm weather routine. I suppose that in the general satisfaction that is felt over thefact that winter is past, the country dwellers can take the hardtravelling and omnipresent nuul philosophically and with little ofcomplaint. But when the warm, dry days of May come, with thegreen grass and blossoms, and new leafage in the oichards and inthe wood lands, no season of the year is hailed with more ■^^tii2-:,,..{ ..v,^/ V BACK-DOOR NOTES n^HE front of a farmhouse rarely undergoes any change. I do^ not count the gradual wearing away of the paint, and the oc-casional restoration of faded tints by fresh applications. I grant,too, there are exceptions, as in cases where the proprietors are in-spired to adorn the front of the house with a new porch, piazza, ora bay window, l^ut occurrences of the latter nature are compara-tively rare ; and as a rule the house is, to the i)asser-by, the sameold house year in and year out. It is not so with the rear of the premises. If one will keepwatch there, he will find change ccmtinual. A farmer seldom hasroom enough for his stock and crops, and his wagons and tools, sothat everything is handy and to his liking. He always feels theneed of an extra shed or two ; and if he finally gets that extra shedor two, he finds, after all, that he ought to have one or two the need seems imperative, and there is not time or moneyfor anything more el
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