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Arthur L. Holmes
290 Walnut Street
Stoughton, Mass. 

July 11th 1932

Dear Doris. Today warm but a good breeze blowing. I have just had my nap & fined that a shower has gone around & left us a good breeze. we may get another with some rain. I have been transplanting some petunias & have them covered up from the sun. our oxide daisies are in bloom & so are my coriopsis [[coreopsis]] they are both very showy plants. & help to make the garden attractive. my stock are growing but not budding yet. the zinnias are some of them showing buds. they are in the same garden with them. the aggipanthus [[agapanthus]] in my flower pot Mrs. Dykeman gave me, has just started a cluster of buds. I fertilized it after repotting it this summer & its responding to the treatment. I have taken my asparagrass [[asparagus]] fern & cut the old growth away & repotted it so it will be

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PS Pa hates to see me talking with anybody. he is really jealous if he can't hear what I say to them, he listens down through the register. he about had a fit when I went over accross [[across] the street to give the Gilzers a dollar bill for paying the Smith boy they could not change my $10. bill so they gave him the dollar for mowing the lawn Pa thought I went to ride with them & was mad, he is the limit  Ma.
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