E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 1^ sometimes peep out, and mixtures cannot always be avoided. We find that some varieties are less reliable than others; but, while the good predominates, vex not over the simnL-' loss of a few seeds, but try again with us to reach the standard. *â That seeds oftentimes cease to grow is an established fact; but it is equally certaH, Vhat that fact alone is no positive proof that the seeds are worthless. Probably ninety per cent of all the flower-seeds sold i!-' this co
E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 1^ sometimes peep out, and mixtures cannot always be avoided. We find that some varieties are less reliable than others; but, while the good predominates, vex not over the simnL-' loss of a few seeds, but try again with us to reach the standard. *â That seeds oftentimes cease to grow is an established fact; but it is equally certaH, Vhat that fact alone is no positive proof that the seeds are worthless. Probably ninety per cent of all the flower-seeds sold i!-' this 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., fancy 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 anv amoiint of skill ought to have been found, were, in part, sown, and reported on as 'bad, â will not grow.' Two years af1:erwards, what remained of the original seed, althoush so much older, was sown, and it grew freely. Why was this? The explanation is simple,â the gardener had been changed. We have many times planted seeds M-hich refused to gi'ow, 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 thing we do know,âthe fault was not in the seed. Complaints that seed are not good are perennial; and we quite believe, that, in nineteen case? out of twenty, they arise fro
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