CHAPTER XXV 
OUR GOLDEN GLOW AND HOLLYHOCKS 
W HEN the frost was out of the ground in the 
springs one of the first things that Joseph 
did was to spend two dollars in buying twenty 
roots of golden glow. He planted them at the 
back of the long bed of the triangle in front of the 
wall, and paid little attention tO' them, until sud- 
denly in the middle of July they startled us by 
crowning themselves with double golden heads, 
flaunted high in triumph* We had noticed before 
this how tall they were growing, and Joseph even 
had staked them to keep the wind from blowing 
them over. Still, I had thought little about them. 
They were hiding nothing but the wall as they 
grew in their tall greenness, and I thought they 
had been planted for this purpose. Indeed, I had 
quite forgotten they were golden glows until they 
showed it to me in terms unmistakable. Now 
they are fully repaying Joseph for his expenditure 
and labour. 
Golden glows are delightful, I think, when 
looked at from a distance. They then make every- 
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