. American homes and gardens. barely covered from sight with the lightest everything ready, sow and cover the seed, and then give covering possible, such as cocoanut fiber (which may be the box a thorough watering on the surface. A better way bought of the florist) or sifted leaf-mold, or sphagnum is either to give the flat of soil a soaking the day before moss—the latter may be had for the gathering in most planting, or to place it in a sink or tub, after planting, and woody swamps. put in just enough water to let it soak up through the soil getting a good stand from the bottom, until the fir
. American homes and gardens. barely covered from sight with the lightest everything ready, sow and cover the seed, and then give covering possible, such as cocoanut fiber (which may be the box a thorough watering on the surface. A better way bought of the florist) or sifted leaf-mold, or sphagnum is either to give the flat of soil a soaking the day before moss—the latter may be had for the gathering in most planting, or to place it in a sink or tub, after planting, and woody swamps. put in just enough water to let it soak up through the soil getting a good stand from the bottom, until the first signs of moisture, indicated When the little seeds have been thus snugly put to bed, by the soil turning a darkercolor, show on the let the box drain untilit stops dripping before pla-cing it in heat. If no sink ortub is available for this sub-irrigation method, the sameresult may be had by fillingthe box not quite full, water-ing it until it is soaking wet,and then put on the rest ofthe soil, through which. the next problem is to getthem to come up strongin due course of time—which should be from threedays to nearly three weeks,according to variety. Thesurest way of doing this isto find some way of supply-ing bottom-heat, as theflorists term it. Wheresteam, hot-water, or hot-airradiator is available, this is
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