66 THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I 



" Thus Bart and I will be equally free without the 

 rending of heart strings free to love and enjoy home 

 from without, for it is really strange when one comes 

 to think of it, we learn of the outside world by looking 

 out the windows, but we so seldom have time to stand 

 in another view-point and look in. Thus it occurred 

 to me, instead of taking one long vacation, we can 

 break the time into three or four in order to follow 

 the garden seasons and the work they suggest. A bit 

 at the end of May for both planning and locating 

 the spring wild flowers before they have wholly shed 

 their petals, and so on through the season, ending in 

 October by the transplanting of trees and shrubs that 

 we have marked and in setting out the hardy roses, 

 for which we shall have made a garden according to 

 the plan that Aunt Lavinia says is to be among the 

 early Garden, You, and I records. 



" May 15. Maria Maxwell has joyfully agreed to 

 come the twenty-first, having obtained a substitute for 

 her final week of teaching, as well as rented her 'par- 

 lor car,' as she calls her flat, to a couple of students 

 who come from the South for change of air and to 

 attend summer school at Columbia College. It seems 

 that many people look upon New York as a summer 

 watering place. Strange that a difference in climate 

 can be merely a matter of point of view. 



