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foliage will have been developed, so that a second, and 

 even a third dressing may be desirable at times. 



However, in late districts, if the crop is well developed, 

 one good dressing will be enough, especially if the weather 

 after the spraying has been fairly dry. 



The experiments carried on by the Irish Land Com- 

 missioners seem to show that the best results follow 

 spraying applied from underneath upwards ; the disease 

 is first developed on the under surface of the leaves. 

 It should, if possible, be conducted only in fine weather, 

 when the foliage is dry. 



CHAPTER VII 



SEEDS AND THEIR TREATMENT 



THERE is perhaps no department in the garden which 

 is the source of so much vexation to amateurs as the 

 sowing and growing of seed the fault lies sometimes 

 in the seed, but oftener in the sower. 



As I have said before, it is the worst economy to 

 buy cheap and inferior seed. The first cost is the 

 smallest part of the business ; it cannot be compared with 

 the time and trouble of the sowing and growing far 

 better to do without than to waste time in growing 

 rubbish, or sowing what will not grow. 



Germination is the first development of the seed. 

 What is needed for germination is warmth and moisture 



