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e a cherry tree," she added as the plan grew before her eyes. Pros and cons were discussed. Perhaps "White Cottage" already had a good garden. No, she had heard the Major say--here Judith blushed and stammered as she heard Jane observe, "Great friend of the Major's is Judy"--that the garden was no good; anyway, they could find out. Perhaps Miss Meredith would find out for them. "But it'll be too late to plant cherry trees and lilac bushes," objected Alicia Harris, who was a practical gardener and had been a steady worker in the War Garden Committee. That was so! Besides, the bride and groom were going to France and what would the garden do in the meantime? Judith looked quite blank. Just when it had seemed such a lovely plan! She could see the climbing rose she meant to give and had already congratulated herself on asking for some extra pocket money for the last term. But Nancy came to the rescue. "I know; let's give the money and the order for the flowers or bushes to a florist and ask him to set them out in the proper time in the fall, and we'll give Miss Ashwell a card with the name of the flowers we have chosen, and, oh, then we could have rhymes. We'd put 'Violets' on the card and then-- "'The rose is red, the violet's blue, Honey is sweet and so are you'-- and then our own name so she'd know who gave her the violets. I'd like to give her violets myself," she added. But Rosamond had a more practical suggestion still. "Let's get the little wooden tags that the florists use and put on them the name of the flower, and the giver's name, and then we could tie another little paper tag to them with the rhyme on it." This was received with applause and the resolution was put to the vote and carried enthusiastically. Judith looked admiringly at Nancy and Rosamond as the meeting broke up and wondered how they could think of such clever things, and was surprised and delighted after the meeting when Nancy slipped her arm through hers and whispered: "Bully for you, Judy; I don't know how you think of such clever things." Next day there was another Form meeting and a committee was appointed--Judy was glad that she was chosen--to get permission to go downtown and enquire prices at the florists. Five B and Five C, whose Presidents applied to Nancy for ideas, decided to further the scheme by buying fruit bushes, raspberries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, and young fruit trees, and Mi
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