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send you my plans for an inexpensive midsummer 

 garden, which will be useful to you only as a part of 

 the whole chain, but for which Evan has a separate 

 need. 



Over at East Meadow, a suburb of Bridgeton that 

 lies toward the shore and is therefore attractive to 

 summer people, a friend of Evan's has put up a dozen 

 tasteful, but inexpensive, Colonial cottages, and Evan 

 has planned the grounds that surround them, about an 

 acre being allotted to each house, for lawn and garden 

 of summer vegetables, though no arbitrary boundaries 

 separate the plots. The houses are intended for 

 people of refined taste and moderate means who, only 

 being able to leave town during the school vacation, 

 from middle June to late September, yet desire to 

 have a bit of garden to tend and to have flowers about 

 them other than the decorative but limited piazza, 

 boxes or row of geraniums around the porch. 



The vegetable gardens consist of four squares, 

 conveniently intersected by paths, these squares to be 

 edged by annuals or bulbs of rapid growth, things that, 

 planted in May, will begin to be interesting when the 

 tenants come a month later. 



But here am I, on the verge of rushing into another 

 theme, without having expressed our disappointment 



