Century Magazine/Volume 91/Issue 4/Staking a Larkspur

Staking a Larkspur
BY ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK
Author of "A Fountain Sealed," "Tante," etc.
AS a matter of fact (one has often to take one's stand on fact when thinking about Vera), it 's I who am the gardener; it 's I, that is to say, who draw the plans and compute the cost and give the orders and see that the men carry them out. I often lend a hand at carrying them out, too, for I love planting seedlings and staking plants and tweaking out weeds here and there when I 've the chance. That wonderful blue border Vera had on the south terrace last summer,—it was just going over when the war broke out,—I put in all the new blue larkspurs myself, three hundred of them,—the larkspurs that Mrs. Thornton was to remind me of,—and I designed and planted and with my own hands helped to lay out the dream-garden, Vera's special garden. It was she, certainly, who had had the idea, standing on the site of the little, old, abandoned sunken garden in its circle of stone wall and cypresses, and saying, "I see a dream-garden here, Judith; a place where one can come and sit alone and dream dreams." She often has charming ideas. Vera, but she knows nothing about gardening. I sound already as if I were c

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