Daddy Takes Us Skating

the eyes of the potatoes," said Ha

e REAL, though they couldn't see

ow could they find their way to grow up ou

swered. "Even if they did grow upside down, or I thought they d

ines now. She had planted them about the same time

that the vines, at the start, would be raised up from the other ground around them. Now the cucumber plants were quite lengthy, running along over

a bottle?" asked Mab as she saw her aunt, with a

ttle trick, though, and really does no good. Bu

going to do i

to Hal and Mab. "Well now I'm going to slip it inside this bottle, but not pull

e enough so the pickle would go i

not broken off the stem, and the bottle, being glass, will let in the sunshine. The neck is also large enough

e of the bottle, so that in the Fall, when it can't grow any more, because of the strong glass, I can b

"I wonder if I could grow a

has to grow inside the husk, and you coul

one of my bean

that shape when it has grown as large as it will ever get. So I don't believe I'd try

ound other bottles with which to do the funny t

niest shaped cucumber," said Mab, when she h

spoke her brother

in his arms, and the children were so interested about what m

going to do no

o the garden and show you how to set

some cabbage pl

own cellar, and have to eat when there is snow on the ground, for cabbage is very good and healthful. We can eat it raw, or made in

we help?"

e on to t

wed and harrowed place ready for the cabbage plants to be put in tha

to know. "Did you grow them in a little box down

plant the cabbage seed early in the spring in what are called 'hot-frames.' That is they are like our tomato boxes only larger, and they are kept out of doors. But over the

egetables better than if you waited until it was warm enough to put the seed right out in the garden, and let the plants grow up there fr

two and others three light green leaves on. There were also small roofs, with a little wet dirt

hed his little boy walking along the cabbage row for a while, dropping the

t?" Hal

ng two and three fall at once. You mustn't make a bouquet of th

ed Mab, who was on the oth

f feet apart, in rows and the rows should be separate one from the other by about twenty inches. Here, I'll cut you each a little stic

s far from the one next to it in the row as Daddy Blake wanted. Then, with a hoe, the children's fath

he two children, when the cabbages had been left to grow. "I want to

is very nice

Mab's brother kindly. "I gue

d beans will not be gathered until Fall, though we may eat some of Hal's corn earlier,

e useless weeds needed hoeing away, so they would not steal

e corn stalks you will see, down near where they are in the ground, some little extra roots coming out abov

e children what he

the ropes we had on our t

ep the tall corn stalks from blowing over just

larger than any of the others. "There's something growing on t

hat," her father said

own stuff and sometimes when you're eating

said his father. "At first it is a light green, like

corn had a blos

d pollen, and unless this falls down from the top of the corn stalk, and rests on the silk which grows out from the ear, there would be no more corn seed. Or, if corn seed, or kernels, did form on the ear, they would be lifel

Then she and Hal noticed where some of the light yellow pollen had already

h Daddy Blake they heard voices over the fence wher

s a big green bug, an' Roly-Poly

rouble as he did with the fly paper," sai