EARLY PREPARATIONS 
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one of the most important places in Nestly, and we 
have no need to economise space. But just because 
there is so much room and opportunity for growing 
flowers, we have decided this first year to make our 
garden exclusively on and about the triangle. In 
front of the house we shall only try to improve the 
lawn. Sometimes we dread lest what we do will 
not be quite right; but then Joseph says that pretty 
flowers can never make a place look ugly. 
Joseph indeed has his own ideas about flowers. 
Although he has never before had a garden to 
work in and to rule, he has often watched the gar- 
dens of other people. His love for most flowers 
is very great, and at the Six Spruces he hopes to see 
growing the ones that he loves best and to have 
none that give him no pleasure. Several times he 
has said: “I do hope you will not ask me to plant 
petunias.” For some reason he seems to think that 
these flowers mar the look of a garden as much as 
the appearance of a tree is spoiled by being struck 
by lightning. If all Joseph’s ideas about the gar- 
den come true, I think we shall some day have 
flowers and shrubs rivalling Miss Wiseman’s and 
even those at Nestly Heights. It delights me to 
imagine how the old place will look when the wall 
is covered with vines, when flowers of many colours 
bloom on the triangle, and when others peep from 
the wood-border. 
It has lately turned so cold that Little Joseph 
has been prevented from working out-of-doors and 
