Part 10 (1/2)

Dear Mrs Flett, Just a note to express racious remarks you contributed to our little ceremony yesterday I believe I can say that ere all touched by your coard for the Recorder and all that it stands for in our coreat pleasure tochildren, and please don't think for a hter, Alice, said about ers soret it I look forward eagerly to your article on the Tulip Festival Five hundred words would do nicely, as I believe I mentioned, but please feel free to expand or contract, should you feel the need We have a great hts

Sincerely, JWD, Editor Ottawa, June 9, 1955 Dear Mrs Flett, Just a note to let you know yournext Saturday in the Sports and Home section We found the piece you mailed in to be solid in the best journalistic sense, yet full of felicities,your description of thinly planted tulips looking like ”ninnies reeht use ”Mrs Green Thuestion, wondering if it ht seem insensitive, certainly not my intention, so do please let me know if you have any reservations

Sincerely, Jay Dudley Ottawa, June 15, 1955 Dear Mrs Green Thue of our fair city's annual Tulip Festival which I found fair, coled out, as being especially praiseworthy, one particular front yard on Fenton Avenue where you claieous Reraph) Since reading this, ood wife and I have persuaded ourselves that this must be a reference to our very own Rembrandts, and to our very own recently stained fence which has caught your attention and achieved the immortality of print

Would you by any chance have an opinion on the use of fungicides to sterilize soil after an eruption of fire-blight?

With thanks, Alvin A MacIntosh Ottawa, June 18, 1955 Dear Mrs Green Thuh fee

Liked what you said about bybloems More people should speak out on said topic Hope you'll continue with the Recorder coluardens writer, Mr Green Thumb, uncommitted on the subject of broken varieties A bit nambypamby on fertilizers too

Yours, Doris Griswold PS I'm with you one hundred percent on the question of pastels mixed with pures

Climax, Saskatchewan, June 25, 1955 Dear Auntie, I've been keeping o by and no luck so far I guess, truth to tell, I'ht as well tell you straight out, I'm in the family way, only nobody around here knows about it, especially ot wind of it

It's a long story, how it happened, I ot to do so two and two together What I want to do is get way far away from here and make a fresh start Then when the tiork out in the end, but the probles started, if you knohat I ot to start rolling only I don't see you could maybe help me out for a few months I mentioned room and board and forty dollars a month when I wrote, but really roorateful for that

With love, Your niece Beverly Ottawa, June 29, 1955 Dear Mrs Flett, As you can see froreat success Everyone, including ee Courage itself takes courage” Well said!

We do hope-I speak for the whole staff-that you'll do a repeat perfor a monthly, or even a weekly, column for us? I realize this request comes very soon after your late husband's de a fir froo), I believe occupation to be thewith bereavely returned to me But, of course, we insist on payment for all our writers I only wish it were more bountiful

Yours sincerely, Jay Climax, Saskatchewan, July 7, 1955 Dear Auntie, This is written in haste I can't wait to see you and the kiddies, and I can't thank you enough for sending the train ticket

Loads of love I've got this funny feeling in the pit oftill next Wednesday

Beverly Boston University, July 12, 1955 My dear Mrs Flett, I do appreciate your writing about the availability of your husband's fine Cypripedium collection which I have seen and adh for us to consider for purchase, nor is it at a standard of preservation we can accept for our museum, particularly the older specimens, montanum, for instance, also calceolus

With best wishes and sincere condolences, Leonard Leust 17, 1955 Dear Mrs Green Thu around my hybrid teas and hybrid perpetuals, and also I've followed your advice with the bone how you feel about staking perennial asters this early in the year

Yours truly, S J Provost Ottawa, August 18, 1955 Dear Mrs F, Many thanks for sending in another wonderful column-and professionally typed too! You do have a ith a phrase: ”The succulence and snap of an apple leaf” Very nice indeed

Hope you're surviving our heat wave

Best, Jay Perth, Ontario, September 12, 1955 Dear Mrs Green Thumb, Here's a useful tip for your readers If you cut back your golden glow you'll get a second blooust Thanks for the instructions about Madonna lilies I've committed mine to the earth, blessed the for the best

Cheers, Mrs Donald Fourtier Se, Northaot through registration at last, and now I feel I can get through anything Got adram after all The prof-everyone calls hiet to this level with just two years of high-school Russian

Yes, it's true, everyone here wears Bermuda shorts all the time, classes and everywhere I could use a coupleto sew (Hi, Beverly, hope you're feeling okay) I was thinking a nice broeed (sort of tobacco shade) would go great with that la in a subdued blue and white check, not too large checks though

I suppose ”Mrs Green Thu more famous every day Which is really neat Really, IDad and forgetting his meing around the house and the heat and worrying about going away and stuff I really honestly think this colu, if you knohat Ibefore, not counting the usual Betty Crocker stuff Maybe you've truly got so line I mean

Gotta run before the library closes I really truly feel I'e, I ot TEXTURE and DEPTH that doesn't begin to show up in those stupid little translations people put up with

Love, Alice Ottawa, October 5, 1955 Dear Mrs Green Thuarden pests, including ”shborhood boys that attack the apple trees”

Thanks, too, for all the helpful hints of what to do with crabapples I liked your last suggestion best-just throw 'eton, Indiana, October 6, 1955 Dear Mrs Flett, We hope it won't be too er before your late father's affairs are satisfactorily settled, but, as you know, his investment portfolio was more complicated than most I have tried for several days to reach hisby telephone, but have received no answer

Her instructions have been followed regarding the division of the property, with full protection afforded your father's pyramid as a ”permanent nature on a nu to the will Do you happen to know if she is traveling at the ton area?

Yours truly, Calvin K Kopps (Bregnaton, Indiana, Nove down Maria Georgio (my latest) and I drove out to Lake Leht as a druood o froo, and I've reserved our rooot your train tickets yet?

Love, Fraidy Ottawa, Noveo Horticultural Conservatory sounds perfect for January, also the Morton Arboretum I haven't visited that renowned city myself, but I understand it is extreraft I would like you to know that if you should ever find you can't e a coluet Pinky Fulhah he usually covers civic events, he is a keen gardener and, incidentally, a great admirer of your columns

Yours, J

Northaht off that you've coht the whole idea was that Beverly was going to have it adopted and then start a new life Here's Warren nearly 16 and Joan 14, the last thing you need is a screa infant around the house

In no tio tripping around with your old ”gal” friends, which is what you've alanted

Frankly, I think Beverly is taking advantage of your good nature I know she helps out, especially with you going off to Chicago, and she does do your typing and all, but just think what she's getting in return Free room and board and a pretty easy ride And I don't see why the baby has to be in my room What happens when I come home at Christmas?

Where exactly am I supposed to sleep, if that's not too impertinent a question? As for the name Victoria, since you asked my opinion, I think it's pretentious There's a Victoria in my dorm and she's a real snot

Can you please send an soon

Love, Alice Ottawa, December 14 Dear Mrs Green Thumb, That was just a wonderful piece on Christle with your leggy poinsettia

Here's soht want to pass on to your readers: keep the darn things away froas, drafts, and radiators and they'll thrive all winter In fact you'll get sick of having theive the soil a stir with a kitchen fork now and again

Happy holidays, and thanks for your weekly words of wisdoton, Indiana, Dece a letter froo You have to believe me when I say I couldn't think of any way to say no She hadthe whole story-I think I'd better leave it for her to tell

Also want to assure you we got the key to the Lake Lehly There's absolutely no indication of what h it looks like soers in the closet and so forth) You already know about the h she could have taken a helluva lotto the lawyer By the way, your dad's old backyard pyraio thought thereinside How d'ya like that?-little squirrelly pharaohs

The Christmas present was a hoot I must be the only person in the state of Indiana,lairaffe's foot-where in God's holy na the Daze of old-though I hope you knohat you're doing, taking on a baby Yikes

See ya soon, Fraidy Blooton, Indiana, January 10, 1956 Fraidy's no doubt told you what happened, dick's little ”lady friend” in Cleveland, anyway I won't go into detail on a postcard

Just gotta get away for a couple of weeks-froee-dee memories I've taken the house off the market-that's one decision anyway See you next Tues at Palmer House

Love, Beans Ottawa, February 2, 1956 Dear Mrs Green Thuardens pushedlike all get out, but after reading about the Morton Arboretuo see for ourselves, so we're driving down in April

Glad you're back Pinky What's-his-name doesn't know ”nuttin” about Harrison's Yellow versus Persian Yellow