CHAPTER III 
THE FIRST PLANTING 
M y way of helping Joseph in these March days 
has been to attend to the correspondence. 
I have written to a number of nurseiymen for 
catalogues, which, after much reading and ponder- 
ing over, have helped us to decide on the seeds for 
our garden. Many of the names In these cata- 
logues we had never heard before. It would be 
fun, we thought, to buy all the seeds mentioned and 
then to find out for ourselves what kind of flowers 
they would turn Into; but this we did not venture 
to do, since we wished first to be sure of having 
some of our old friends In the garden. 
We chose ten-weeks stocks, baby’s breath and 
cardinal-flowers to start In the boxes, and bought 
numbers of other seeds to sow out-of-doors as soon 
as the frost left the ground. Almost every day 
Little Joseph looks over these seed packages, read- 
ing anew their labels and thinking how wonderful 
It will be when through his care they turn into 
pretty flowers of different forms and colours. 
I helped him sow the seeds In the boxes. It was 
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