SOME PRACTICAL HINTS 



plant they grew on. This is an easy way 

 of keeping in stock a constant supply of 

 young plants. But care must be taken to 

 transplant them or pull them out before 

 they grow large enough to crowd the 

 parent plant. I transplant all my seed- 

 lings of every kind and sort, even Oriental 

 poppies, and never sow anything in its per- 

 manent place. The transplanting will put 

 them back a little, but if carefully done will 

 not harm them, and by doing it one is able 

 to place each one to the best advantage, and 

 it will do better in the end. 



I am, however, very careful in trans- 

 planting. The best time to do it is late in 

 the afternoon when the sun is low. And 

 the seedling should be old enough to have 

 a good vigorous root to sustain the shock 

 of moving. In transplanting, a hole some 

 niches in circumference must be made, and 

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