JOSEPH PLANTING THE GARDEN 103 
about his head. Often we have both been re- 
minded of that meadow. 
The cultivated irises will bear larger flowers, 
and have a more complex form than the wild blue 
flags. If they make the moist point of the triangle 
half as pretty as the meadow, perhaps Joseph’s 
gnome will find them out. 
The golden glow was set in front of the wall at 
the very end ; farther down, in fact, than the holly- 
hocks. The former grow so high, and are so viv- 
idly yellow, that I think they should be looked at 
from a distance. 
Then there are the little plants of hardy chrys- 
anthemums that Joseph has set out. These are 
most important, since they give us flowers last of 
all. During the summer, they will appear as foliage 
plants, because we will keep their buds nipped off 
to prevent their blooming early. The leaves of 
chrysanthemums are a soft, ashen green, and there- 
fore look well as a background for other flowers. 
The number of plants that Joseph has already 
set out about the triangle is wonderful to me. I 
feel sure his back must ache. But, in spite of all 
the work that he has done, I have thought of other 
flowers for which I am pining. Heliotrope is one 
of them ; but as yet I have said nothing about it to 
Little Joseph. 
