THE FIRST WEE HEAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21278, 3 September 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE FIRST WEE HEAD

Dear Miss Morton.— Every day when mother sends me to the garden to gather a bunch of flowers I make sure to look carefully, in every little corner, to see if 1 can see a small yellow head peeping out from under its little green coat. I looked and looked, until yesterday I gave up in despair. "When are those little heads going to appear?" 1 would say to niyseli and imagine I heard the little flower fairy whisper to me. •• Not yet." Slowly and gloomily then I would walk inside and look up at the vases of flowers on the mantelpiece and I would sav to myself, " There are few 1 love better than my favourite old daffodil." This morning mother bade me go and fetch flowers, and 1 picked some African marigolds and also «i bunch of jonquils. I walked °^'* r * large clump of the latter, and. oh! what should ! see, the thing that I had been longing to get a glimpse of, a little yellow head peeping from under its wings. It was the first seen by any of us, to I felt quite proud. Well, I saw what 1 wanted to sfe. Good-bye. Your loving pen-friepd, Hernia Bruford, Omanaia, Hokianga. A SPRING GARDEN Dear Garden Lovers. —I have a wee garden and at present have very few flowers blooming. A few davs ago I planted some jonquil bulbs. My anemones are flowering very well at present. I wonder if anyone would send me some tulip and freesia bulbs in exchange for some carnation slips and Black-eyed Susan? —Best wishes from another garden lover, Nellie Hyde, Turiroa P. 0., Wairoa. Lucy Fyers: I didn't have much luck with the -ursinias. Lucy, but half-a-dozen of them came up well, and I have planted them out. 1 nipped the tops off and they are now about five inches high. They look like cosmos, don't they ?