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CHAPTER IV 
MISS WISEMAN S SUGGESTIONS 
S we drove through Miss Wiseman’s gateway 
jt\ and looked over her lawn, Joseph exclaimed, 
“Surely there are flowers in bloom, see there, every- 
where !” 
This was true. Little baby snowdrops were lift- 
ing their heads and blooming in many places. Some 
of them were only in bud, but they also made a 
white gleam through the grass. 
“I wonder that no one reminded us about snow- 
drops,” I said. “We might have set out a few 
through our own lawn.” 
“Their bulbs have to be planted in the autumn,” 
Joseph replied, “and last autumn we were not the 
owners of the Six Spruces.” 
“You must just enjoy my snowdrops and crocuses 
and Siberian squills this year,” Miss Wiseman said, 
when we spoke to her about them, “and next spring 
you can have your own. This is the first day,” she 
added, “that they have made much of a showing. 
These little snowdrops come first of all. In a fort- 
night larger ones will be in bloom, while the 
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