Planting the Spring Garden - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Moving to a cottage in one of the suburbs, Mr. and Mrs. Citiman decide to follow the example of their neighbors and have a garden, making their back yard blossom as the rose. Mrs. Citiman makes out a list of seeds and her husband, loaded ...See moreMoving to a cottage in one of the suburbs, Mr. and Mrs. Citiman decide to follow the example of their neighbors and have a garden, making their back yard blossom as the rose. Mrs. Citiman makes out a list of seeds and her husband, loaded down with all sorts of garden utensils and embryo flowers, on his return from the city, is greeted with much fervor by his better half, she scarcely gives her hubby time to eat his supper before setting him to work digging and planting the seeds. He works until late at night and she has him up on the job early in the morning. After the seeds are all in the ground, the neighbor's hens immediately get busy, scratch them out and eat them all up, making a wreck of the flower beds. At night on his return home from business, Citiman is again set to work by his wife replanting the seeds and putting everything In shape. The next morning the hens are up at daybreak and repeat their havoc of the day before. Saturday being a half holiday, Citiman is invited by some friends to go fishing. Just as he is leaving the house, his wife catches him and sets him to work in the garden, while she bosses him around, making him work like a slave. She goes to the store. He sits down to rest and falls asleep, dreaming that he is surrounded by a magnificent Persian garden, which he saunters about smoking a cigar and directing his wife in the cultivation, trimming and arrangement of the different plants. Just as he is in the midst of this delightful dream, Mrs. Citiman returns and plays the garden hose on him. This arouses him to rebellion. He seizes the hose and turns it on her, giving her a good drenching. Some of the neighbors, looking over their fence, are laughing at the fun, when they are treated to a wetting by the enraged Citiman. To more fully assert himself, he gathers together the garden implements and all the other appurtenances pertaining thereto, sets them afire and gleefully dancing about, watching them burn with much satisfaction, to the dismay of his wife. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less