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Show ! Plant Flower Seeds Indoors To Transplant Later screen It. Mix one-third of this soil with two-thirds of sharp sand, place It in a flat pan and put in a hot oven for several hours. Heat will sterilise the soil Place In the bottom bot-tom of a crock or shallow box a number of piece of broken crock. Add peat moss if it is available. Fill the balance of the container with baked soil Water until the surface of the ground is aa inch below the rim. After the soil has dried out sow seeds of annual flowers. flow-ers. Cover with sterilized screened soli and sand mixture. The finer the seed the leas covering. Place container at a aunny window. win-dow. A pane of glass ovsr ths pot will help germinate th seed. When the seedlings show their second sets of leaves they ar ready to be transplanted. Repeat the soil sterilisation and use pots of wooden flats. Transplant Trans-plant each plant so that it haa several sev-eral inches each way to develop roots. It is no longer possible to keep the glass covering on and sf the seedlings begin to grow at an angle toward the Ught then place a white cardboard at the rear aide of the pot so ss to reflect soma of ths Ught As ths seedlings grow pinch out the leading stem so aa to make the plant leas high and delicate but more hardy and bushy. These seedlings can be transplanted trans-planted again into Individual pots, but they will do just as well if transplanted directly to the open ground after the danger of a frost is passed. By DONALD GRAY Noted Landscape Consultant The only reason for planting annual flower seeds Indoors Instead of outdoors out-doors is so as to increase the time of blooming outdoors. Most varieties of annual flower seeds should not be planted outdoors out-doors until the danger of frost is passed. It Lakes On a another month , after the seeds 5eri6S re planted before they bloom. By growing plants under artificial heat they are of blooming size when set out in the garden as soon as seed can be planted. At best ths gar- Baked SoilV - ' Jf H Baked SandV - Teat Moss - fcjHI Broken Crock Section f pat fined with sea ready far plea ting seed. Cenrerimg seed with screeatw soil sad sand smixtar. K?v TraasaJaatiag aaadllags ta svjs4bar pet after Bret kn leaves have dsverspsd. dener haa a limited Bomber of week during the year when he can i have annual outdoors. Bo it I aa advantage to start the blooming period as early as possible. These annual flower plants can be purchased from a greenhouse ar ! commercial grower, but this series of garden art teles is on the subject of how ta get the most for the least expenditure of money. There's fun i too in growing; your owa plants. Take ordinary garde soil end |