CHAPTER XXXIII 
THE AUTUMN WORK 
T his week, when it is nearing October fifteenth, 
Joseph has again been busy transplanting 
perennials that have come up from the seeds sown 
in the bed last spring to the places where they are 
to remain permanently. This has not only required 
activity on his part, but a good deal of thinking and 
imagination. He has to keep continually before 
him the picture of the garden as it will look when 
these plants are in bloom, and also how they will 
appear when they have grown old. By planting 
them now, he hopes to have them rooted before the 
ground freezes, when they may rest undisturbed 
until the time comes to make an early start in the 
spring. With these added to the perennials we 
planted early, much ground that was bare will be 
covered and flowers will decorate the triangle in 
bolder masses than heretofore. 
As Timothy says, our garden stock is all young. 
This means that none of our hardy roots is large 
enough to require dividing and resetting at this 
time of year, which is often necessary in older gar- 
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