so MISS WISEMAN’S SUGGESTIONS 
“It will never do to plant them by the stone 
wall,” she said at once. “They need light on both 
sides, and it is best to have them running from east 
to west. Now if you had a rail fence — — ” 
“But we have not,” Little Joseph replied mourn- 
fully. He had begun to feel very disturbed about 
the sweet peas. 
“Then the best thing you can do. Master Joseph, 
is to set about and build a wire trellis. If I were 
a boy, I would help you,” Miss Wiseman said, in a 
way that made Little Joseph think it must be no 
end of fun to build a trellis. “You can make it 
any shape you like and place it wherever you like. 
You just set posts in the ground and fasten your 
wire around them. At least that is the way I man- 
age to accommodate my sweet peas.” 
I hastened to say that her flowers were very beau- 
tiful, for Miss Wiseman is as sensitive about them 
as many mothers are about their children. 
Here then was a new idea for Joseph. He not 
only had to dig a trench and to plant his sweet peas, 
but to build a trellis for them to grow upon. 
“I seldom hasten things as much as Mr. Bradley 
does,” Miss Wiseman said. “If I were you, I 
should not put in the seeds for a week or ten days.” 
“But the wrens have their nest nearly built,” 
Little Joseph replied. “Spring will soon grow 
warm, and we shall have no flowers.” 
“It is just because the wrens have their nest 
ready that they can keep warm when the late frost 
