Flower grower's guide . gand wintering the plants in frames. Thesemoderate-sized plants endure more frost thanthose which are larger and more succulent, andare in great demand for window-sill decora- tion as well as for planting in beds. For econo-mising space, many thousands are raised early inAugust, transplanted two or three inches apart inboxes, stored in frames for the winter, and placedin beds or borders in the spring. This method isextensively adopted in some of the London parkswith satisfactory results, the Lothians floweringthroughout the summer. Stocks succeed well intown
Flower grower's guide . gand wintering the plants in frames. Thesemoderate-sized plants endure more frost thanthose which are larger and more succulent, andare in great demand for window-sill decora- tion as well as for planting in beds. For econo-mising space, many thousands are raised early inAugust, transplanted two or three inches apart inboxes, stored in frames for the winter, and placedin beds or borders in the spring. This method isextensively adopted in some of the London parkswith satisfactory results, the Lothians floweringthroughout the summer. Stocks succeed well intown Wallflowers.—These delightful flowers areindispensable for spring bedding, and largenumbers of the best strains are raised from seedyearly. If partial failures occur, this, in mostcases, is mainly due to either sowing the seedtoo late or too thickly. The method of over-crowding the seedlings, and the results of it, aroshown in Fig. 92 as examples to be avoided. Firm,bushy, hardy plants are just as easily obtained;. Fig. 93. Seedling , Eaising plants thinly ; e, the same shortly after transplantation in the reserve garden (see page 19G). but thejr can only be had by starting with sturdyseedlings (see Fig. 93), the result of thin sow-ing ; and this applies not to wallflowers alone, butequally to many other seedlings. Wallflowersshould be raised and grown as there is not done by sowing in pans or boxes, butin an open position in the garden early in May;some good growers sow still earlier. Open shallowdrills G inches apart, water if at all dry, and sowthe seed so thinly that, when the plants appear,they are at least half an inch apart. If the ruleas to thin sowing is disregarded, the least thatcan be done is to transplant the seedlings beforethey become drawn and spoiled, in the firstinstance, 6 inches asunder, eventually movingevery other row and every second plant in thereserved rows elsewhere. This second removal checks exuberance, promotes ha
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