PRUE'S WINDOW
The last was from Prue, when she saw the artist putting the flowers along the vines that he had made climbing up the sides of her window.
"Yes," said the Chief Gardener, "those are morning-glories. You can have two vines in each pot, if you wish, and in that way get four colors—blue, white, purple, and pink. On Davy's side I have made climbing beans—scarlet and white runners—because they are very pretty, and also very good to eat. Davy's is a vegetable, and yours a flower, garden. Then, if Davy wants some flowers, and you get hungry, you can give him flowers for vegetables."
"Oh, that will be playing 'market,' won't it? I just love to play 'store' and 'going to market.'"
"My beans look a good deal like Prue's morning-glories, all but the flowers," said Davy.
"So they do, Davy; and they really look something the same in the garden. The leaves are nearly the same shape, only that the morning-glory's is more heart-shaped, and then beans have three leaves to the stem instead of one. Sometimes I have taken a morning-glory for a bean, just at first."
"What else have we?" asked Prue. "What are the little flowers, and the big one in the center?"
If the Chief Gardener felt hurt because his pictures did not show just what all the flowers were, without telling, he did not say so. He said:
"Well, in the center of your window, Prue, the big flower is made for a sunflower. Not the big kind, but the small western sunflower, such as we had along the back fence last summer. I think we can raise those in the house."
"I just love those," nodded Prue.