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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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asserts that I can coax anything in the plant life to wax enthusiastically; and that a broom handle may even be made to grow by me, but of course he is prejudicial if unfortunately the thumb is attached to a hand and arm and person whose skin gets hives one very provocation. An impediment really, in that practically everything that grows that comes in direct contact with my skin -- may it brushes it ever so lightly raises those familiar swellings. But I do seem to have the knack for coaxing things to grow. So once more we find the inconsistencies running true to form. Then landscaping involved not surely the duplication of a surface decoration. Long before this point could have been reached it meant digging down in the ground, leaving seed-surface shiate and rocks, so that only then a footing of handed in dish might be established for the roots of the regulation. After this sociable job had been accomplished it was possible to go on with the solution and arrangement of the various group. It came quite simply except that I have no temperance in acquiring pretty little conifers, spruce, pines and all the evergreen family. About the whole unit a stone wall had to be constituted under direction as also did the pool and fountain flying together as they were
 
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