. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . ]:)case planted. Thewhole family goes out and takes part in the work for a while aftersupper; and when the darkness deepens, and brings their labor toa close, thev still loiter a while to ha\e the satisfaction of a shortcontemplation of this woik, so well begun. 75 « « A BOOK OF COUNTRYCLOUDS AND SUNSHINE Long before, even when the snows of early March were fly-ing, Mrs. Farmer had started some tomato-plants in-doors. Sheplanted the seeds in such wooden boxes as she could find, in tinpots, earthern pots, old tea-cups — nothing, in fact, came
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . ]:)case planted. Thewhole family goes out and takes part in the work for a while aftersupper; and when the darkness deepens, and brings their labor toa close, thev still loiter a while to ha\e the satisfaction of a shortcontemplation of this woik, so well begun. 75 « « A BOOK OF COUNTRYCLOUDS AND SUNSHINE Long before, even when the snows of early March were fly-ing, Mrs. Farmer had started some tomato-plants in-doors. Sheplanted the seeds in such wooden boxes as she could find, in tinpots, earthern pots, old tea-cups — nothing, in fact, came kept them during the day on the window-sills with a sunnyexposure, starting with the window-sills in the east in the morning,and ending in the evening with those ii: the west. At night thisarray of pots and boxes reposed on the shelf behind the stove. It may be observed that, in with the tomatoes, the smallestchildren of the house had begged to insert a variety of other seeds,such as onion, pumpkin, and cucumber. They just wanted to. \\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 delight.
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