JOSEPH PLANTING THE GARDEN 99 
flowers. In that old garden, I remember the plants 
had not been disturbed for years, but had grown 
very large, reappearing regularly with the spring. 
Over at Miss Wiseman’s, the peonies are planted 
at the ends of several borders. I wish ours to be 
set in a bed by themselves, not far from the wall, 
near the point of the triangle. This year, how- 
ever, we will use it for annuals or other plants that 
can be easily transplanted when the time comes for 
putting in the peony roots. 
Both Miss Wiseman and Mr. Hayden have 
given us columbines which will soon begin to bloom. 
Those that Joseph sowed in the seed-bed will not 
bloom until next year, since they are perennials. 
We shall save a space for them near the others, be- 
cause, as with peonies, I think they look best when 
kept by themselves. But Miss Wiseman has them 
in the same border as her peonies, poppies, phloxes 
and other kinds of flowers. 
Perhaps I am wrong in some of the ideas I put 
into Joseph’s head. I do, however, much prefer 
to see flowers of the same kind kept closely together 
to having them scattered about among those of a 
different air. Near them, flowers that bloom 
earlier or later can be grown. At least, we intend 
to plant our garden after this idea. If it then 
turns out a failure, we will give in and follow our 
neighbours. Mr. Hayden thinks we are very bold, 
and, perhaps, a little ungrateful, not to allow his' 
landscape gardener to keep us, as he says, in the 
