PLANTING IN BOXES 21 



at the back of her neck. "I ran 'most all the 

 way." 



Mr. Trommel put down his watering-pot and 

 laughed. "Ach! what a rush we are in! The 

 plants will not make haste for you like that ! " 



The under-gardener laid the package on the bench 

 and tugged at the string. "I wanted to get a packet 

 of every kind there was, but my money gave out," 

 she explained, "and I had fifty cents saved from 

 Christmas. There 's nasturtiums and chrysanthe- 

 mums and sunflowers and poppies and asters and 

 sweet peas and marigolds and hollyhocks," she enu- 

 merated proudly, counting over one by one the gaily 

 colored seed packets. "Can't we plant them right 

 now?" she finished, standing on tiptoe and stretch- 

 ing over the bench to pull one of the boxes within 

 easy reach. 



"The haste of the young American!" said Mr. 

 Trommel. " You will have them all planted in the 

 boxes before I see what you have. We had better 

 save some of the seeds to plant in the ground," he 

 said persuasively. "The three boxes we have pre- 

 pared will be enough to care for, and a good gardener 

 puts only one kind of seeds in a box, that they do not 

 be mixed." 



