HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1915 
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dwarfs hugging their roots and alongside 
the sturdy foxglove with its luxuriant bed 
of leaves at the foot of the flower stalk, 
and so on through a lot of others. 
The pergolas and trellises were planned 
and completed, and at each post were 
planted pink rambler roses, so that in time 
there will be a bower of roses; but to 
make it beautiful this first year, we used 
the wild cucumber vine, which is more 
wonderful in growth than Jack’s famous 
beanstalk. The wild cucumber seed must 
be planted in the fall, therefore, antici¬ 
pating, we had put in quantities the pre¬ 
vious autumn; when pergolas and trellises 
were ready the vines, just peeping out of 
the ground, were transplanted; over the 
top of the large pergola we put the large 
meshed wire, so the entire pergola was a 
mass of tender, beautiful green, making 
most delightful shade and softening the 
garishness of so much white paint. There 
was a tea house built, which in a short 
time was completely covered with the 
cucumber vine. The service yard was 
divided from the main part by a trellis 
of strips; on the inside of this we put 
tomato plants, which were trained up the 
trellis, and planted artichokes on the 
outside. 
At the gate on the front street one 
stepped down onto a quaint attractive 
brick walk, not an ordinary brick walk, 
but made like stepping stones, arranged in 
squares of the lovely old brick which age 
had so beautifully colored, the bricks laid 
both horizontally and perpendicularly in 
twos with the short grass peeping up be¬ 
tween. This led to and through one of the 
pergolas, giving quite an old-time air to 
the place. The other walks and drive 
were made of scallop shells, which crush 
easily, making a clean, well-drained walk. 
By the middle of June all workmen had 
left and we felt that we could take things 
more quietly. In looking over the place it 
seemed impossible that with the exception 
of the new kitchen, cellar and back porch, 
which were built the previous November, 
all, the improvements had been made since 
the first of April—the interior alterations, 
repairs, papering, painting, inside and out, 
the pergolas, trellises and tea house built, 
painted and partly covered with vines — 
the ground graded, sodded, weeds re¬ 
moved, seeded and fertilized, the walks 
and drive completed. By July the garden 
was a mass of bloom and continued so 
until November. By August first, the per¬ 
golas were not only completely covered 
with vines, but a mass of feathery white 
bloom, some of the vines trailing far up 
into the trees and second-story windows. 
The quaint old house, painted white, with 
green blinds, the pergolas white with their 
qreen covering of vines and feathery 
bloom; the various trellises, the tea house, 
the ricketty and unsightly old barn made 
beautiful by its generous covering of vines, 
the lawn, the flowers—it really seemed 
incredible that so much had been accom¬ 
plished. Magic! some say; but it was 
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