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flowers (in white) in masses for decoration the stems measuring fifteen to twenty inches in length, and blossom spikes often fifteen, with average of eleven inches

On the lawn fence to the south were trained for a hundred feet your beautiful sunlight and moonlight, etc. nasturtiums, and at one end on a little room in line with fence were purple cobaeas covering roof allso; near other end was a large white cobea trained on inside of a little locust tree over hanging the fence [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] affording the required protection from the sun and blooming profusely.
The last fence [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] with trellis afforded one wall of a beautiful arbor running parallel with the central walk, covered with your willow leaf butter beans, a beautiful ornamental vine as to leaves and blooms, and a most prolific bearer of its fruit A neighborhood friend admiring it remarked, "I must copy that in my own garden for a lovers walk"

The cultivating of vegetables was new to me, but the learning and a more intimate association with Nature and the joy of working in "Gods out of doors", brought more enthusiasm than I had known before, even in my art work, and increase of mental and physical vigor

Your carrots were a revelation when from first planting the lovely blossoms appeared. I called the plot devoted to them my combination garden - flowers, ferns, and food The blooms arranged in large flat crystal bowl, with queens lace and white & pink larkspur, growing in wild profusion in a nearby meadow, made a most admired dinner table decoration