82 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
To produce heavy crops, sow early in March, pot off singly, and 
when well established shitt into six-inch pots, and keep near the 
glass. After they are well established in the larger pots, which takes 
but a very few days, they must be gradually hardened, and about 
the middle of May be planted out against a south wall. They will 
require protection from frost should the weather be frosty after they 
are planted. A friable soil, not over-rich, will be found to suit them 
best, for they do not require soils that have been enriched by a 
liberal addition of manure. Unless the soil is light and very poor, 
no manure whatever should be applied. They must be trained to 
the wall, and as each cluster of fruit is formed, stop the shoot 
immediately beyond it, to divert the whole vigour of the branch to 
the development of the cluster of fruit, and when each plant is fur- 
nished with five or six clusters, stop all the new growth as fast as 
it makes its appearance. 
Tomatoes may be cultivated most successfully in pots. Instead 
of planting them out in the middle of May shift into ten or eleven- 
inch pots, and let them remain in the frame until the end of the 
month, when they should be placed at the foot of a south wall, and 
be allowed to root through into the border. A few branching stakes 
must be put round them to support the shoots, which must be 
stopped according to the directions given for stopping the growth of 
those planted out. Beyond stopping and supporting the shoots, the 
only attention required will be to supply them rather liberally with 
water. Any ordinary good soil will suit them when grown in pots, 
and there is no need whatever to prepare elaborate composts. 
FINE FLOWERS FROM CHEAP SEEDS. 
BY WILLIAM COLE, 
The Grove Vineyard, Feltham. 
=H will probably interest many of the readers of the 
Friorat Wok tp, especially those who have but little, if 
any, accommodation for wintering stocks of bedders, to 
be informed that a considerable number of the most 
. =" beautiful summer flowers may be raised from seed with 
the same facility as mignonette. They are not all bedders, strictly 
speaking, but those not quite suitable for filling beds are of the 
utmost value for the mixed border, in which it is desirable there 
should be as great a variety as possible consistent with the flowers 
being of high quality, and produced continuously throughout the 
season. Some of the subjects, however, that will be enumerated are 
of the highest value for bedding purposes—as, for example, the 
petunias and verbenas, which, sown and otherwise managed in the 
same way as hardy annuals, produce a magnificent display of bloom 
throughout the summer. 
. We will take first of all the subjects that are in every way suit- 
able for bedding purposes generally, and the best of these are 
