Archive image from page 23 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 ( sometimes peep out, and mixtures cannot always be avoided. We find that pome varieties are less reliable than others; but, \yhile the good predominates, vex not over the simple loss of a few seeds, but try again with us to reach the standard. That seeds oftentimes cease to grow is an established fact; but it is equally certain that that fact alone is no positive proof that the seeds are worthless.
Archive image from page 23 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 ( sometimes peep out, and mixtures cannot always be avoided. We find that pome varieties are less reliable than others; but, \yhile the good predominates, vex not over the simple loss of a few seeds, but try again with us to reach the standard. That seeds oftentimes cease to grow is an established fact; but it is equally certain that that fact alone is no positive proof that the seeds are worthless. Probaljly ninety per cent of all the fiower-seeds sold in ihis country go into the hands of persons who have no idea of how seeds should be grown. ,Iany of them, perhaps, accustomed to putting into the ground peas, beans, radishes, &c., f:incy themselves acquainted with sowing seeds in general; and, when they fail, the blame is laid, not upon their ignorance, but upon the seedsmen. Is it to be wondered at, then, that there are occasional complaints that seeds do not grow? An example or two, about which there can be no mistake, will explain our meaning. A few years since, some seeds sent from India to a great garden near London, where any amoiint of skill ought to have bee]i found, were, in part, sown, and reported on as 'baa, — will not grow.' Two years afterwards, what remained of the original seed, although so much older, was sown, and it grew freely. Why was this? The explanation is simple,— the gardener had been changed. We have many times planted seeds which refused to grow, and, after waiting a sufficient time, have then planted more out of the same parcel, which vegetated readily. This is not an uncommon occurrence among gardeners. And why is this? We would answer, that the fault may have been in planting, or in the weather, or in some cause unknown; but one thhig we do know, — the fault was not in the seed. Complaints that seed are not good are perennial; and we q
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