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Show HOW TO DEVELOP THE BOX PLANTS Transplanting and Nursing, the Key to Success in the Art of Growing Things. HEAT AND SOME NEEDED Tender Shoots Require Careful Attention At-tention From Time They Come Through Ground Until Planted In the Open. It Is an art to produce from tho small Tegetable or flower seed strong and healthy plants that the owner will be proud of when they are set out in the open. It is Intensely interesting to note the quick response plants will make to a little attention and nursing. Tomato, cabbage, pepper and other vegetable plants, as well as any of the numerous kinds of flowers that The Berry Bex Plants. are first planted In flats in the basement base-ment or placed In an upper floor window win-dow where there Is heat and sunlight, uiuet have attention. Next to warmth and sunlight in Importance Is sufficient suffi-cient moisture to urge growth. When the plants have reached an age when they are large enough to be removed from the flat without Injury to the roots, they should be transplanted trans-planted to small pots or berry baskets anything that will hold the soil and a little moisture. Cartons serve this purpose very well. Another transfer of the plant is advisable as the roots became matted on indication that the basket or pot It not large enough. It will be noted that a larger container will soon be found too small, and that an additional ad-ditional repotting will be advantageous, advanta-geous, if a larger and healthier plant is desired. Many careful gardeners make at least three transplantings before the plant Is set out in the open. By that time it is strong enough to battle the elements with the possible exception ex-ception of frost. In setting the plant In the open, by this careful and interesting method of transplanting, the roots Intact with the mass of soil clinging, may be transferred in a manner that not the slightest injury is done to the tender roots and soon the plant has taken hold li its new home in a manner that will astonish the Inexperienced cottage gardener" in fact it is not uncommon un-common for plants In the more advanced ad-vanced stage of development to be In blossom or bearing small fruit. Plants such as tomatoes transplanted In the open in tills manner should be staked at once better still, have the stakes Id the ground before the patches may b seen on the roots and sometimes on the lower part of the stums. |