. E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. ^MATEUK pULTIVATOK'S ^UIDi:. sowing. No rule can -oe given m this respect; but, as a general guide, all large seeds, sucli as Sweet Peas, Lupins, &c., may be sown half an inch deep,â"smaller, less; and for the smallest, such as Clarkia, Pinks, &c., a covering of one-sixteenth of an inch suffices. If sown too deep, they are longer in germinating, and are l
. E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. ^MATEUK pULTIVATOK'S ^UIDi:. sowing. No rule can -oe given m this respect; but, as a general guide, all large seeds, sucli as Sweet Peas, Lupins, &c., may be sown half an inch deep,â"smaller, less; and for the smallest, such as Clarkia, Pinks, &c., a covering of one-sixteenth of an inch suffices. If sown too deep, they are longer in germinating, and are liable to decay. Avoid the general error of sowing the seeds too thick; as it causes an elongated and fee'ble growth, which no subsequent thinning will entirely remedy. If the weather should be warm, or the soil very dry, it will be advisable to give a sliglit watering with a watering-pot with a fine rose. It is'not often that seeds planted in Apvn need watering;^ but later in the season they frequently require it. Use Avater of the same temperature of the soil; or, if warmer, it will do no harm. The waterings should be given early in the afternoon, and repeated every few days; as, when the seeds begin to swell,"they are more susceptible of injury from di-ought, 'and the young pltmts often perish when it is neglected A good plan with very small seeds is to cover them with an inverted flower- pot, being cart-al to remove it before the young seedlings appear above the surface, other- wise they will be drawn up weakly, and are likely to be injured by the hot sun or a cool night. Seeds vary in their period of gennination. Some will be above gi'ouud in a week, while others require two or three weeks. As soon as tu; eeedlings have made three or four leaves, and are an inch high, they should be thinned out. If they are kinds which will bear removal, they may be I'eplanted in vacant spaces in the border. No rule can be given for thinning. Tall-growing plants with spread- ing branc
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