. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. 52 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENING moved carefully, will pay well for the trouble and will help to form a winter flower garden. Potted plants and window boxes may be protected several weeks in coldframes built at the school. A number of perennial flowers may be started from seeds planted in coldframes in August, to flower out-of-doors the next season. Try violets, pansies, larkspur, phlox, foxglove, and many Fig. 30.—Sweet-potato
. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. 52 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENING moved carefully, will pay well for the trouble and will help to form a winter flower garden. Potted plants and window boxes may be protected several weeks in coldframes built at the school. A number of perennial flowers may be started from seeds planted in coldframes in August, to flower out-of-doors the next season. Try violets, pansies, larkspur, phlox, foxglove, and many Fig. 30.—Sweet-potato plants may be grown from the potatoes in hotbeds in early spring. The plants may be either used or sold. (New Jersey Station.) Bulbs of such flowers as hyacinth, daffodil, tulip, narcissus, crocus, and others do well if started in coldframes and then placed in hotbeds or warm rooms later in the winter. It is well to pot the bulbs either in earthen pots, tin cans, or berry boxes, and keep them cool and well watered for a few weeks before forcing them too much. Plants for Hotbeds.—Seeds of quickly growing vegetables are very suitable for hotbeds in late winter and early Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davis, Kary Cadmus, 1867-. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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