THE SECRET OF THE SEED 



forms they were likely to develop. My 

 one idea then being simply to fill the bed 

 with something anything that would 

 grow and blossom and decorate that rag- 

 ged wall in the shortest possible time. 

 The succession of blossoms, the colour com- 

 binations possible, and the proper group- 

 ing as to size, shape, or habit of growth I 

 had not as yet thought anything about. 

 I only felt vaguely that that wall might 

 be beautiful instead of ugly, and groped 

 blindly for the means of transformation. 

 But although I crowded this strip as full 

 as it would hold of my new seedlings, 

 there still remained many more than it 

 had space for. My next step, therefore, 

 was to start a new shrubbery above the 

 wall for them. 



The new bed, into which my vaulting 

 ambition leaped over the obdurate stone 

 59 



