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where he wishes them to bloom next year. These 
young plants will be somewhat tender the first win- 
ter of their lives, so he will cover their roots over 
late in the autumn, to keep them from being nipped 
by Jack Frost. 
How much there is to think about in a garden I 
I listen in amazement to the many things Joseph 
tells me, and cease to wonder that the neighbours 
think him a bright boy. He has not learned all 
that he knows from “An Ambitious Boy’s Garden.” 
I think Miss Wiseman and Mr. Percy have helped 
him more than all the books and catalogues he has 
read. This is because they have observed little 
details for themselves when watching flowers. 
They know their individual habits, and do not have 
to follow such set rules as are laid down for begin- 
ners in gardening. Mrs. Keith says she never has 
learned a rule about planting a flower in her life, 
but that she can make them grow because she has 
“a way with her.” This is true about some people. 
Flowers grow for Little Joseph, and the triangle 
this year has astonished every one. Some boys, 
on the contrary, have little success when they make 
their first gardens. Sometimes I think there is 
witchcraft in Joseph’s fingers. He knows, with- 
out being told, just how to handle a plant and how 
deep to set it in the soil. He knows often, how to 
prune it, and how to gather and sow its seeds. I 
fear I am not by nature half so expert a gardener 
as Little Joseph, but, apart from the rosarium, my 
