RAISING PLANTS FROM SEEDS 5 1 



far the best window plant for home raising. 

 The pyramidal flower heads are unattractive 

 in colour, but they exhale a most delicious 

 odour — there is nothing else just like it. 



Mignonette is very hard to transplant; 

 indeed it is impossible to do it without giv- 

 ing the plants a check, and the secret of 

 growing good mignonette lies in growing 

 it on without a check at any stage of its 

 growth. For winter bloom sow the seeds 

 in July, August, or September. July-sown 

 seed will bloom in November. Instead of 

 sowing in flats sow directly in pots. 



Prepare as described for flats as many two- 

 inch pots as you wish plants to grow. Make 

 a slight depression in the soil in the centre 

 of each and drop into it two or three seeds, 

 covering lightly with soil. When the seed 

 has germinated (about two weeks) thin to 

 one plant to a pot, retaining the strongest. 

 When the pot has become filled with roots 

 shift to four-inch pots and as soon as these 

 are full of roots shift to eight-inch pots. 

 When giving this last shift put in a two-inch 

 layer of drainage. Be very careful not to 

 over-water or the soil will sour; but, on the 

 other hand, mignonette must never get dry 



