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Show Help Your Flower Seeds To Avoid Garden Hazards m nil i.vro Ns -11 y- l : v w " I Mix Small Seeda With Band to Broadcast Them Over Area You Wish to Cover. Anyone can make a flower garden gar-den by Bowing seeds right where he wants the garden flowers to grow; but It Is easy to tall It the sower Is careless, or lacks knowledge of a few simple ways to protect the seeds from conditions condi-tions which might prevent thelr growth. All annual flower seeds may be own directly in the garden; and there are a number which should be, because they are difficult to transplant. These Include alys-sum, alys-sum, California poppy, godetla, kochia, leptosyne, linaria, lupin, matthlola (evening scented stock), nasturtium, dwarf phlox, popples, portulaca and salpl-glossis. salpl-glossis. Much the same technique should be used as In sowing In a seed box, particularly as to shallow planting, and covering the seeds with porous soil. Identification Identi-fication of the seeds, and of their location, are also important, since with slow germinators it is easy to forget exactly where they were sown. Seeds are subject to many hazards which human skill cannot can-not wholly avoid, but the care-tul care-tul operator may count upon a high average of success. ' Prepare a smooth seed bed, loosening the soil to a depth of six inches. Work into it 4 pounds ! of plant food for each 100 square feet. Then outline with a string the area to be covered with each variety. Mix the seed with sand Fast Germinating Flower Seeds Five to Ten Days. Sweet Alyssum Leptosyne Antirrhinum Llnarla (snap-dragon) Lobelia Aster Lupins English Dally Marigolds Browallla Mimulus Calendula Nicotlana (sweet Calllopsls tobacco) Candytuft Pansy Celosla Petunia Centaurea Annual Phlox Coreopsis Portulaca Cosmos Mignonette Sweet WUllam Schlzanthua Dlanthus Viola California Poppy Zinnia Godetla Nasturtium Ten to Twenty Days. Ag.ratum Sweet Pea Cobaea ScandensForget-me-not Coleus Nlgella Dahlia Primrose Carnation Cypress Vln. Snow-on-the- CardlnalCllmbar mountain Castor Bean 8alllardla Scablosa erbera 8alplglossls Koohia Verbena to help scatter it over the space as evenly as possible. Then sift a light covering of porous soil over the seed and firm it lightly. Now, until the seeds sprout the soil must be kept moist; and this requires daily sprinkling with a fine spray, taking care not to wash the seeds out of the soil. You should know when to expect the seeds to sprout. The table above is based upon experience in seed laboratories. In your garden the period may be more or less by a few days, but J will Mrr as a guide. |