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Sow the seed thinly in drills of fine earth, about an inch 

 or more deep. The distance allowed for each plant will 

 vary according to our plans for the future of the bed, 

 but it will be safe to name eighteen inches ; for, if the 

 bed be made a permanent one, every other row can be 

 cleared away later, and the plants left double the space 



apart if wanted to force under pots (a process now 

 almost obsolete). Any plants not required can be taken 

 up in the following autumn, and planted at a distance 

 of one foot from one another, in rows eighteen inches 

 apart. Break off any thongs from these young plants, 

 so as the stem of the seedling plant is say six inches long. 

 Cover up as many of these roots or thongs as are as 



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