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have come up. Generally speaking, those sown in the borders 

 are stronger and more rampant than those sown in pots and 

 turned out ; but they are not the better for their strength ; 

 the check plants meet with in the pot, and when turned out, 

 moderates the growth and hastens the bloom ; and, as a 

 general rule, this holds good with other things. Erocoli left 

 in the seed-bed, and with plenty of room and good soil, will 

 not make so good a head as that which has been moved twice ; 

 there will be more green, perhaps, but less flower. Peas 

 sown in boxes, and then put out in rows, come to flower in a 

 more dwarf state, and have a good deal more flower, in pro- 

 portion to their size, than those sown where they ^re to grow. 

 Scarlet beans, partly starved in a pot, and then planted out, 

 will have mostly more flowers and pods than those sown in 

 the row at once, though they will not have so much rampant 

 growth. 



Sowing Tree-seeds. — The sowing of seeds extends, how- 

 ever, from small salading to the sturdy oak ; and as much, 

 perhaps, has been ^Tittcn upon one subject as we are taking 

 for the whole. In the sowing of haAvs and hips for thorns 

 and briers, acorns for the oak, pips for apples and pears, stones 

 for plums and cherries, and all things do\\ii to the little seeds 

 of strawberries and raspberries, to produce those plants and 

 canes, all require only to be placed in the earth, to be covered 

 enough to conceal them from the vermin, and shield them 

 from the heating rays of the sun, and time will do the rest. 

 Tliey must all be kept clear of weeds, for these drain the earth 

 of its moisture, where moisture is most wanted, that is, near 

 the surface. The whole management of any or all these con- 

 sists in keeping them clean and giving them water when they 

 would be parched and perhaps killed without it. When they 

 have had a year's grow^th, — and it is to be noticed that some 

 of them will be a year coming up, or a great portion of it, — 

 they will remove at the proper time, and are bedded out, that 

 is, placed in the easiest way a few inches apart, and then 

 provided with good nourishment and better room ; but the 

 sowing part is as simple with on^^a^' pf plnit t as another. 



Treatment after SowiN^^^^^S^eM rule should be 

 observed, which is, that l»c s^^^Micn 'once i/ginriipg to 

 swell, should never be all^^ed to get ck>5CSgain. In theX^pen 

 ground it seldom does, bimin potsTtlip^ipla fclii^c^'of neglect; 

 the seeds can draw notlfiag fror4-t)tKvtVi§^ii\lIe case t^ith 



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