CHAPTER IX 
JOSEPH CONTINUES SOWING SEEDS 
HE weather has lately favoured Joseph’s gar- 
1 den greatly. Although he was disappointed 
that he could not sow more seeds the day Queenie 
Perth came with the wren’s egg, the morrow proved 
equally fine for such work. There was a mist in 
the air, which kept the soil moist; yet rain, which 
might have washed the seeds from the ground, held 
steadily oft. Again Joseph started from the house 
with his basket of seed packages, this time in the 
direction of the triangle. 
He took out first his packages of nasturtium 
seeds. These were annuals, and he had two kinds 
of them, climbing and dwarf nasturtiums. He 
soon decided to sow the first kind in the very nar- 
row bed by the wall, where the vines were to be 
planted. Here these seeds took up but little room. 
Joseph put them about an inch deep in the ground. 
In this spot the sun could find them easily, and the 
sun and nasturtiums are very fond of each other. 
It was with more difficulty that he made up his 
mind where to sow the dwarf nasturtiums; but, 
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