Treatment of Youno; Carnation Stock 



worked, moist, mellow soil just before a shower, frequently commence 

 growth at once, and in many instances have made practically as good plants 

 as stock struck three weeks earlier and planted out at the same time from 

 two-inch pots. Fiut this will not hold as a rule. Young stock planted from 

 the sand into the field is more apt to be injured by either droughts or ex- 

 cessively heavy rains than stock from pots, so that while we occasionally 

 do this in order to save time and labor it cannot be recommended as a gen- 

 eral practice. 



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