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RAISING SEEDLINGS. 

 The following will be found an excel- 

 lent method of raising seedlings. It is 

 very simple, as most valuable things 

 are. In preparing seed pans or seed 

 boxes see that they are dry and clean, 

 and the drainage efficient, over which 

 should be placed some fibrous loam, then 

 put down a layer of good sandy loam, 

 run through a half-inch sieve, and pat- 

 ted down moderately firm. Over this 

 place about one-fourth of an inch of dried 

 sphagnum or common peat moss, sucn 

 as is used for packing (thoroughly 

 dried), and run through a wire sieve 

 about as fine as a mosquito wire gauge, 

 this powdered moss, about in the condi- 

 tion of fine sawdust, being evenly spread. 

 Upon this moss is placed, about three- 

 fourths of an inch thick, a compost con- 

 sisting of three-quarters loam and one- 

 fourth sharp sand, well mixed together. 

 Make it level, and sow the seed thinly 

 on the compost, press down with a 

 smooth board, and sift on sufficient fine 

 moss to cover the seed, watering the 

 whole with a fine rose. The top layer 

 of moss keeps the surface always moist, 

 preventing all drying and baking, and 

 allows the young "plants to easily reach 

 the light. The layer of soil below it af- 

 fords nourishment to the seedlings, 

 which, as soon as tlieir roots reach the 

 layer of fine moss below, form a mass of 

 fibrous roots. No one familiar with the 

 raising of seedlings need have the ad- 

 vantages of this method pointed out to 

 him.— W. E. E. in the Gardening 

 World. 



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