42 THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I 



mignonette, portulaca, poppies, and the like, where 

 great quantities are massed. 



When you have prepared a hardy seed bed of the 

 dimensions of ten by thirty feet, which will allow of 

 thirty rows, ten feet long and a foot apart (though you 

 must double the thirty feet if you intend to cultivate 

 between the rows with any sort of weeding machine, 

 and if you have room there should be two feet or 

 even three between the rows), draw a garden line taut 

 across the narrow way of the plot at the top, snap it, 

 and you will have the drill for your first planting, which 

 you may deepen if the seeds be large. 



Before beginning, make a list of your seeds, with the 

 heights marked against each, and put the tallest at the 

 top of the bed. 



"Why bother with this, when they are to be trans- 

 planted as soon as they are fist up?" I hear Mary 

 Penrose exclaim quickly, her head tipped to one side 

 like an inquisitive bird. 



Because this seed bed, if well planned, will serve the 

 double purpose of being also the "house supply bed." 

 If, when the transplanting is done, the seedlings are 

 taken at regular intervals, instead of all from one spot, 

 those that remain, if not needed as emergency fillers, 

 will bloom as they stand and be the flowers to be util- 



