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JOSEPH SOWING SEEDS 
seeds were planted. There were only the small 
label-sticks in the ground to let a stranger know 
about the gay beauties we were expecting later. 
The sweet alyssum and the mignonette Joseph 
sowed in several places. He used them wherever 
he wished flowers to form borders for beds. The 
alyssum seeds he put in furrows about half an inch 
deep, while the mignonette was not planted as far 
down. 
I felt pleased that we were to have these two 
flowers in plenty in our garden. They are both 
fragrant, and I think that a sweet-smelling flower 
is better than one with no scent. They are also 
both attractive in bouquets. Often I tell Joseph 
that I shall work hardest in the garden when pick- 
ing tim.e comes. 
Next Joseph sowed the candytuft, putting it in 
the ground to about the same depth that he did the 
mignonette. He had only white candytuft, and, 
while in several places he planted it for edgings to 
the borders of beds, in another spot he sowed so 
much that it will form a fine mass by itself. Never- 
theless, he did not use all of the seed that he had, 
for, in order to have it stay with us until frost, he 
would have to keep on sowing it about every two 
weeks. 
“Dear me,” I said, “will you have to do that with 
all the seed that you have planted?” 
“Oh, no,” he answered, “the mignonette and 
