Ludmila's ESL composition: The Flower Show March 30, 1952

Some of the things Ludmila loved:  gardening, nature, the sun

     I'm not sure how long Ludmila had been in the US when she wrote this.  I will find out and post later.  Speaking as an ESL teacher or just as your average reader, the depth of thought and vocabulary choice is surprising.  I am transcribing it exactly as written.

Ludmila Koslow (abusive stepfather's name she later legally removed from her name)
English Class
March 30, 1952

The Flower Show

     On Friday, March 28th, our class went on the "Flower Show".  "The Flower Show" was in the Commercial Museum at 34th below Spruce.  It is the sole place in Philadelphia where you can be sensible of the summer earlier on two months.
  
     When we entered the museum, hundreds of the scents of different flowers met us.  I stopped to smell them.  We went on.  And then we saw the flowers of all seasons.  There were autumnal roses of different colors and shades, september asters, gardenias, summer annuals, orchids, lilies, carnations, narcissus and many other flowers and plants.  The flowers were wery bright and motley.

     The entire big hall was divided on the premiseses, that were turn into the tiny parks and flower gardens with miniature fountains and basins, with carpets out of the lawns.  Except this there were eight country gardens with two country broadside markets among them, and farmyard with the barn, load of the hay, goat, pigeons and duck pond.

     To visit the flower show exhibit and to look how such miniature gardens are arranged, is a good lesson for all those, who live in the suburs and have before the house a little piece of the ground which can be converted in the flower garden, that will gladden the eye during the summer.

     Many people tramped on the flower show, gathering the catalogues of the gardeners, buying the packets with the grains, sacks with the manure and etc.  Lengthwise of the right side stood the tables, where were selling all this is necessary for the gardener:  the all kinds of the scissors, instruments, boxes for the conservation of the seeds.

     After two hours of the walk at the exhibition in my hands were suddenly present several pockets with the manure for my plants, catalogues, and the bundles with the sperms, that I shall plant, when I  shall have my own villa...How much time will go till I shall set my plants I don't know, but I hope they will not ruin, because the grains that were found in the tombs of the Pharaons gave the germs at last.


---I think Ludmila probably did not have any place to plant her seeds and make a garden when she first came to live in Philadelphia.  They were poor.  But it seems in this composition she is hoping her seeds will last for how ever long it takes to get her own garden,  just as the seeds discovered in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs were still able to sprout after thousands of years.  This dream did come true for Ludmila.  Gardening was her life long passion.  Ludmila designed an addition to my house, and her side of the yard was blooming from first spring until even a little after the first frost (due to a hardy red rose that I don't know the name of).  Neighbors would come to take pictures of her garden, it was so beautiful.  It really did gladden the heart of Ludmila and all who saw her creation.