. Dreer's Perfect Pansies Pansies are too well known to require any description, as they are favorites with all. For best results you must start with a good strain. The finest Pansies are, as a rule, shy seeders, which accounts for the difference in the price of the various mixtures offered. Miss Ida D. Bennett, the well-known horticultural author and enthusiastic admirer of Pansies writes the following notes on their culture expressly for this book: "Pansy seed germinates and the plants grow more freely in the cool, early days of spring, and for summer-blooming should be sown by the latt
. Dreer's Perfect Pansies Pansies are too well known to require any description, as they are favorites with all. For best results you must start with a good strain. The finest Pansies are, as a rule, shy seeders, which accounts for the difference in the price of the various mixtures offered. Miss Ida D. Bennett, the well-known horticultural author and enthusiastic admirer of Pansies writes the following notes on their culture expressly for this book: "Pansy seed germinates and the plants grow more freely in the cool, early days of spring, and for summer-blooming should be sown by the latter part of April, or early in May, in the vicinity of Philadelphia. A soil containing a proportion of leaf mould, well enriched with well-decayed cow manure, will be the most satis- factory for the growing of this flower, and it should be well dug and made fine and level. "Sow the seeds in drills, covering them not more than four times their diameter and firming the soil well above them. The seeds germinate in from eight to twelve days, and should not be allowed to dry out during this period. Covering the seed bed with news- papers will prevent this and hasten somewhat the period of germi- '"^ nation. "As soon a.^ the plants are up and large enough to handle, they should be thinned out or transplanted to stand nine inches apart in the rows. Thorough cultivation should be given from the start, as Pansies will not thrive when obliged to share the beds with a mass of weeds. "It is a mistake to plant Pansies in the shade of a tree or buildings. An open exposure, where the wind has a free sweep over the bed is far better, and Pansies so planted are free from the long, straggling branches which produce few and inferior flowers. During dry weather the bed should be watered daily, and in extreme cases twice a day for the best results. "Seed sown in April or May will produce blooming plants by the last of June, which will give an abundance of flowers throughout
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