PLANTING IN THE SEED-BED 59 
number of them to Little Joseph. She says that 
it is sometimes wiser for beginners in gardening 
to buy a few plants from nurserymen rather than 
to raise all they require from seeds. 
Among the annuals in his basket of seed pack- 
ages, Joseph has to-day mignonette, sweet alyssum, 
nasturtiums, candytuft, Shirley poppies and phlox 
Drummondi. The phlox, however, is the only one 
that he will put in the seed-bed. The others will 
all be sown at once on the triangle, since they like 
to stay where they are first planted. 
Joseph had hardly started towards the seed-bed 
before Queenie Perth came flitting across the front 
lawn, asking very loudly for Master Joseph, 
“I want Master Joseph this minute,” she said. 
I told her that he had gone to the seed-bed, 
where he was probably very busy. 
“Then I will go there, too,” she replied. 
Queenie appeared to have something in one of 
her hands which she kept closed tightly. I went 
out with her to the seed-bed, since she did not know 
the way, and there was Little Joseph making fur- 
rows in the earth with a pointed stick. 
“I have something,” Queenie said. “Guess!” 
Joseph went right on making the furrows. “A 
doll,” he answered after a while. 
“Something harder to get than a doll,” Queenie 
told him. 
Joseph still went on making the furrows. 
