“She planted, as soon as the first strip was ready, runner beans and a row of lettuce. ‘The runner bean,’ said her book, ‘is not over-particular,’ and Caroline gratefully acknowledged the truth of.
“On a fine May afternoon Caroline sat out in her garden admiring the Aesopus tulips.” – Margery Sharp, “Four Gardens,” 1935
Last week I introduced Caroline Chase Smith, the protagonist in Ma.
“The six tulips stood straight as soldiers, proud as dukes, and gay as cockatoos. Their streaked petals, pink and creamy-white, had edges delicately fluted like the lip of a seashell. They were at.