THEIR GARDEN VACATION 69 



" Hurrah for Liberty and outdoors ! It begins to- 

 morrow. You may label it Their Garden Vacation, and 

 admit it to the records of The Garden, You, and I, 

 at your own risk and peril ; but as you say that if you 

 are to boil down the practical part of your garden- 

 boke experiences for the benefit of Aunt Lavinia and 

 me and I must send you my summer doings, I shall 

 take this way* of accomplishing it, at intervals, the 

 only regular task, if gossiping to you can be so called, 

 that I shall set myself this summer. 



" A new moon to-night. Will it prove a second 

 honeymoon, think you, or end in a total eclipse of our 

 venture? I'm poppy sleepy! 



" May 23. 10 A.M. (A postal.) Starting on vaca- 

 tion; stopped bedroom clock and put away watches 

 last night, and so overslept. It seems quite easy to 

 get away from Time ! Please tell me what annuals 

 I can plant as late in the season as this, while we are 

 locating the rose bed. 



"MARY PENROSE." 



