^^4 JOSEPH WINS TOURNAMENT 
appeared on the trees. Many times Joseph has 
said to me: “We were lucky in choosing those 
ten-weeks stocks.” 
At Nestly Heights these flowers are quite ig- 
nored by the gardeners. I was rather glad of this, 
for it enabled us to send Mrs. Hayden a bouquet 
of something she had not herself. 
The phloxes have been the most triumphant flow- 
ers this August. They have amazed us by bearing 
many heads of bloom, in various colours. Usually 
I do not like magenta flowers, but phloxes of this 
colour are quite lovely. I have even seen them 
mingled with others of a strange, pinky brick 
shade, and yet they appeared to harmonise. If, 
however, I had seen these, two colours side by si.de 
in other flowers, or in a lady’s gown, they would 
perhaps have distressed me. 
Joseph thinks the mist we have had so much of 
this August may have blended the phloxes’ colours 
together. He says they are very grateful plants, 
and that, once well started, they need but little care, 
and will send out numbers of bright flowers. Our 
garden is aglow with them. Chipping-birds and 
sparrows trip in and out among them, and some 
fat robins that have not been long out of the nest 
never fly far away. 
These robins remind me of a strange story told 
us by Queenie Perth, one which we have found to 
be quite true. Last week she came here and asked 
Joseph why he had not been to see her Auntie’s 
