Show High 1 Spring Tm By FLORENCE BITTNER Spring takes its own sweet time It promises and reigns but by the time we have endured the dark the ice coated just the thought of sunshine and birds singing is enough to send the least able gardener racing for the nearest seed B. frequently gets bitten with the spring garden bug hard and He is a season Soon after the Christmas tree came he purchased several of those little boxes with pre-planted One of one of giant marigolds and several EVERYONE who knows B. knows he measures the advance of the summer season by the progress of his tomato Flowers are my but for a successful he needs One of those little seed packages can grow an awful lot of My petunias showed promise and little My giant marigolds live up to their but his tomatoes show what love and care can do for WE MAY have the loggers in to trim the tops before we get them set but we have got tomato Whether we get a crop of edible tomatoes will be a surprise to wait for in but our house has looked like a branch greenhouse for the past With the publicity given recently to the need for plants to be loved and cared for I watched to see whether B.'s affection could spread to encompass a houseful of budding Evidently it I SUSPECT him of secretly crooning to them and chucking them under the saying encouraging sweet nothings into their eager little He denies but someone has been encouraging B. not only rushes spring with his tomato He also washes cars on cloudy waxes when blizzards fertilizes lawm In wind and plans to go boating in snow I THREATENED to report him to Bob Welti when lie got his motor scooter out two weekends ago and started tuning it up In preparation for summer He didn't heed that warning any more than he heeds anything else I warn him and I am certain he brought on our giant I TELL him this animosity toward winter he has developed the past few years is a sign of advancing but he only said he doesn't know anyone who is getting any younger and if they would put a referendum on the ballot this jail to repeal he would not only vote for he would even campaign for I remind him that though on us Polling mv ar golds with i My brother wW called brag U said singing and it 4 degrees warm told but know to Dorothy their ast weekend and Ik him It isn't AND IT smart to can't be will I that bit of out in the the hedge clippa |