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ferns another season than just the few that Mr. 
Percy transplanted for us. 1 also' should like to 
see there several clumps of the tall, feathery- 
looking grass called eulalia japonica, or Japanese 
plume grass. As autumn draws near, this grass 
appears at its best, and the plumes sometimes stay 
on all winter, if not planted where too high winds 
will attack them. Already we have one such clump 
of grass in our garden, but I should like to see sev- 
eral about the place. As yet, I have not found out 
how much money these additions would require, 
nor even whether, as Joseph says, they would be 
practical. Next year, however, as I shall not have 
to spend so much capital on roses, I may put it all 
into plants for the moist point of our garden. This 
was the spot where things kept freshest during the 
long drought. One day, perhaps, we may find 
that there is a tiny spring lurking somewhere under 
the ground. 
Even now at the moist point we are expecting a 
brilliant show of cardinal-flowers. These are the 
plants that Joseph watched and waited for at least 
six or seven weeks before they peeped up through 
the soil of the window-box. After that, they grew 
quickly, vying with each other for space. Since 
the day that Joseph set them out in the garden, 
however, we have thought little about them, until 
now that they are almost ready to bloom. Noth- 
ing about them appeared in the least unusual to 
Joseph or me until yesterday, when Mr. Percy, who 
