THE RAISING OF PLANTS 37 
case of nursery-grown plants, where seeds are sown 
directly out-of-doors, the young seedlings start very 
siowly, are very tender during their early growth, and 
FIG. I3—-ONE-YEAR-OLD POT-GROWN ASPARAGUS PLANT 
if the weather is unfavorable they hardly become well 
established before autumn. ”’ 
Fig. 13 shows a one-year-old plant started in Feb- 
ruary in the greenhouse and transplanted to the field 
the first of May. Plants grown in this way reach as 
good size in one year as the nursery-grown plants 
usually do in three years. 
