As the society now numbered forty members , this meant a total of two hundred young trees . Early oats greened over the red fields ; apple orchards flung great blossoming arms about the farmhouses and the Snow Queen adorned itself as a bride for her husband . Anne liked to sleep with her window open and let the cherry fragrance blow over her face all night . She thought it very poetical . Marilla thought she was risking her life . `` Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring , '' said Anne one evening to Marilla , as they sat on the front door steps and listened to the silver-sweet chorus of the frogs . `` I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep . Then you have to remember to be thankful ; but in May one simply ca n't help being thankful ... that they are alive , if for nothing else . I feel exactly as Eve must have felt in the garden of Eden before the trouble began . IS that grass in the hollow green or golden ? It seems to me , Marilla , that a pearl of a day like this , when the blossoms are out and the winds do n't know where to blow from next for sheer crazy delight must be pretty near as good as heaven . '' Marilla looked scandalized and glanced apprehensively around to make sure the twins were not within earshot . They came around the corner of the house just then . `` Ai n't it an awful nice-smelling evening ? '' asked Davy , sniffing delightedly as he swung a hoe in his grimy hands . He had been working in his garden . That spring Marilla , by way of turning Davy 's passion for reveling in mud and clay into useful channels , had given him and Dora a small plot of ground for a garden . Both had eagerly gone to work in a characteristic fashion . Dora planted , weeded , and watered carefully , systematically , and dispassionately . As a result , her plot was already green with prim , orderly little rows of vegetables and annuals .
Davy , however , worked XXXXX more zeal than discretion ; he dug and hoed and raked and watered and transplanted so energetically that his seeds had no chance for their lives .
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