50 MAKING SEED AND FLOWER BEDS 
has not ventured to go over there for manure. 
Miss Wiseman, however, thinks of everything long 
in advance, and often sends things she knows it 
would be difficult for us to get this first year. 
Not very much manure was needed to prepare 
the soil of the seed-bed, the earth there being so 
rich; but it is astonishing to see the quantity that 
Timothy is now using since he has begun making 
the flower-beds. 
As I have said before, the triangle was our great- 
aunt’s favourite bit of lawn, also that this year it 
has been rolled and reseeded by Timothy. Even 
now, it has begun to look like a large, green carpet. 
We have decided to have no paths through it, but 
to make the flower-beds just where we wish and 
later walk to them over the grass. We both think 
it will look prettier if it has no gravel walks. Jo- 
seph expects to sow his seeds and set his plants so 
thickly that very little of the brown earth of the 
beds will be seen, and we hope to make the flowers 
look as if they grew right up in the grass. 
I wish I could describe exactly the places where 
the beds are being made. As the flowers come up 
and show their colours, I shall know more about 
them. There is one bed in which I am especially 
interested. It is near the point of the triangle, 
just above where the soil is moist, and, although it 
partly follows the outline of the point, it is more 
curved. It is almost the shape of the moon in its 
first quarter. This bed, the outline of which was 
