. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1924 49th year. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 40 CURRIE BROTHERS COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. GENERAL FLOWER SEED LIST ALL FLO^VER SEEDS DELIVERED FREE BY JLA^IL For years the high reputation of our FloT»-er Seed strains and the hundreds of appreciative testimonials they annually bring forth have been a source of the greatest possible pride and gratification to us. We will spare no expense or effort
. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1924 49th year. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 40 CURRIE BROTHERS COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. GENERAL FLOWER SEED LIST ALL FLO^VER SEEDS DELIVERED FREE BY JLA^IL For years the high reputation of our FloT»-er Seed strains and the hundreds of appreciative testimonials they annually bring forth have been a source of the greatest possible pride and gratification to us. We will spare no expense or effort to maintain this reputation. Whether grown by ourselves or produced for us by the great specialists their qnalitr positively cannot be excelled, and given proper conditions they must not only grow and produce vigorous plants, but in size, quantity and texture the floAvers themselves cannot fail to reach a particularly gratifying standard of excellence. In this respect we recommend particularly our specialties—Asters. Carnations. Calceolaria, Cineraria. Cyclamen, Mignonette, Nasturtiuins. Poppies, Pansies, Primulas, Stocks, Sweet Peas, Verbenas, etc. Certainly none of better quality can be secured anyvrhere. I'SEPIL HIXTS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL CULTIA'ATIOX OF FLOWER SEEDS. Many failures occur in the sowing of the very small seeded varieties of Flower Seeds as the result of covering too deeply, washing out by too heavy waterings or omitting to water in time, in which case they dry off, or shrivel up. Sow the Seeds in shallow seed pans, 2 or 3 Inches in depth, first filling to within half-inch of the rim with finelj' sifted soil, which press down firm and level; then scattering the Seeds evenly over the surface and covering with soil to three or four times the depth of the seed: the A-ery fine seed should only be pressed «lo-»vn with a board. After sowing cover with a sheet of glass or a wetted sheet of paper until seedlings come through the ground after which remove the glass
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