. Dreer's Royal Kxhibition- Pansie s Dreer's Perfect Pansies. DANSIES are too well known to require any description, as ihey are favorites with all. For best results you must start with a good strain. The finest Pansies are, as a rule, shy seeders, which accounts for the difference in the price of the various mixtures offered. Miss Ida D. Bennett, the well-known horticultural author and enthusiastic admirer of Pansies, writes the following notes on their culture expressly for this book: " Pansy seed germinates and the plants grow more freely in the cool, early davs of spring, and for summ
. Dreer's Royal Kxhibition- Pansie s Dreer's Perfect Pansies. DANSIES are too well known to require any description, as ihey are favorites with all. For best results you must start with a good strain. The finest Pansies are, as a rule, shy seeders, which accounts for the difference in the price of the various mixtures offered. Miss Ida D. Bennett, the well-known horticultural author and enthusiastic admirer of Pansies, writes the following notes on their culture expressly for this book: " Pansy seed germinates and the plants grow more freely in the cool, early davs of spring, and for summer blooming should be sown by the latter part of April, or early May, in the vicinity of Philadel- phia. A soil containing a proportion of leaf mould, well enriched with well-decayed cow manure, will i)e the most satisfactory for the growing of this flower, and it should be well dug and made fine and level. "Sow the seeds in drills, covering them not more than four times their diameter and firming the soil well above them. The seeds ger- minate in from eight to twelve days, and should not be allowed to dry out during this period. Covering the seedbeds with newspapers will prevent this and hasten somewluit the period of germination. "As soon as the plants are up and large enough to handle, they should be thinned out or transplanted to stand nine inches apart in the rows. Thorough cultivation should be given from the start, as Pansies will not thrive when obliged to share the beds with a mass of weeds. " It is a mistake to plant Pansies in the shade of a tree or build- ings. .\n open exposure where the wind has a free sweep over the bed is far better, and Pansies so planted are free from the long, straggling branches which produce few and inferior flowers. Dur- ing diy weather the bed should be watered daily, and in extreme casps twice a day for the best results. " Seeds sown in April or May will produce blooming plants l)y the last of June, which will give an
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