ACCUMULATING A GARDEN 75 
him a garden joy that otherwise he might be ignor- 
ant of even now. 
The moment desire was known, neighbors of- 
fered of their garden treasures. So a start was 
made by going after these offerings in April. In- 
cluding some shrubs, they were numerous enough 
to fill up the extended bulb bed and a new triangu- 
lar, half-shaded border that had been dug where 
two paths met on the other side of the house. 
There was even enough, with gifts that followed in 
May, to fill a dozen or more short rows in an 
improvised border in the rear of the house; every- 
thing separable was divided, some plants making 
three or four. This bed, unconsciously rather than 
by intent, became a nursery. 
Later, seed of a dozen kinds of perennials and 
biennials, one packet of each, was purchased. This 
was sown, in shallow boxes, on the very first day 
of August—strictly according to rule. There was 
a good stand, which was thinned out where too 
abundant, and in due time a great number of seed- 
lings was transplanted, in a cleared end of the 
vegetable patch—the more delicate ones in a home- 
made coldframe and the remainder in rows by the 
side of it. When the time came for covering them 
up for the winter there was a lot of lusty plants, 
though smaller than the one most interested had 
hoped to have at that particular stage of the pro- 
ceedings. 
The end of the first season did not see much of 
a garden, to be sure; any one might protest with 
