CHAPTER XXXI 
GETTING READY FOR BULB-PLANTING 
S OME flowers have come Into our garden this 
September that remind me of the spring days 
when bloodroot awoke in the woods, and narcissi 
bloomed in Miss Wiseman’s border. These are 
the Japanese anemones, the bulbs of which Joseph 
planted in early spring. They are frail and deli- 
cate, and look like early flowers. It seems as 
though they had made a mistake in blooming so 
near the time of frost. Frost is just a little way 
behind the flowers of spring, while it approaches 
these of September. Maybe for this reason, this 
autumn month reminds me of May. Little Joseph 
does not see this at all, and says that the fact is not 
mentioned in “An Ambitious Boy’s Garden.” 
Long ago I found out that Joseph sees only what 
actually exists In a garden, while Queenie and I 
often are conscious of other things that, though 
just as real to us, are more difficult to explain. 
“Jack Frost will come soon,” Queenie said to me 
lately. 
I asked her how she knew. 
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