JOSEPH SOWING SEEDS 
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after a while, he had a happy thought about them. 
They like sun as well as the climbing ones, and 
they also like rocks. So he brought several stones 
from the woods and placed them on the ground in 
front of the wall, very near where he had planted 
the other nasturtiums. 
“They can grow here,” he said to me, “and it 
will look better to have the two kinds together than 
to have them in different places about the triangle.” 
The dwarf ones, he had learned, would begin to 
bloom earlier than the others; but, as they grew 
at the base of the climbing ones, it would appear 
as if all had begun to flower at once. Gardeners, 
Joseph had read in “An Ambitious Boy’s Garden,” 
have often to play little games of deception with 
their plants. 
Since the nasturtiums were planted at the end 
of the wall that comes up near the house, it will 
be easy for me to step out and gather their flowers 
whenever I choose. I like to see these bright 
flowers arranged in green glass dishes for the din- 
ing-room. There is something very clean and 
cheery about their look. They are among the 
flowers that appear as if they were always smiling. 
Besides, Mrs. Keith says that the leaves of the 
dwarf nasturtiums make a spicy salad. 
In our mind’s eye, we could both see just how 
these plants would look when they were in full 
bloom, yet on this April day the wall, the ground 
and the stones appeared scarcely different after the 
