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Title
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[Marjorie’s Garden]
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Date
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1919, June 21
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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1
June 21, 1919
1 June 21, 1919 Lincoln, Nebraska Today I visited the garden which Marjorie and her mother play with and love. Such a beauty it is, given the atmosphere of happy yesterdays by hollyhocks, larkspurs, Canterbury bells. A little earlier the lily of the valley, the bleeding hearts, and their like conveyed the old-time note, with the modern offering a wondrous display of I know not how many strains of iris.The lower end of the yard, separated by a meticulously trimmed mulberry hedge, is full to repletion of all kinds of things edible, all growing with the wonderful force of this peerless year. Crops which ordinary respect for proportions keeps about one’s knees in common years are climbing to shoulder height, and threaten soon to look down upon us. Never was such a year, and I loathe the things which keep me indoors with such marvels to be seen, tame or wild.I tacked a small board to the top of the dead cherry tree, sawed off eight feet from the ground and covered with Virginia creeper, and tied strings to lead the tips to arch over the newly made cement pond with rough rock edges; rocks of every description, from mountain, desert, and glacial drift – a good start for a geological museum. This will be a beauty spot later in the season. The dense shade favors large ferns from the northern woods, and lacy maidenhairs from the steep and humid bluffs below Omaha. Water hyacinth from the South floats on the surface, and later will have a wealth of lavender blossoms, borne aloft like banners. Goldfish and salamanders live peacefully in the depths.But what I want to tell about is the disgraceful behavior of the butterflies. Fancy a butterfly behaving disgracefully! But there it is.
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Rights
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