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 watering, until the plants are well up, which will 

 usually be at the end of three or four weeks' time. 

 The bed should be kept constantly moist, but 

 not too wet. An ounce of seed should sow a space 

 about six feet square, and should furnish fully 

 six thousand plants. The seed does not suffer 

 from age until it is over five years old. 



In describing the foregoing method we have 

 assumed that the plants are to be lifted and trans- 

 planted, but many growers sow the seed in the 

 rows where the crop is to stand. On many 

 accounts we prefer the former plan. You will 

 always get a much more even and generally a 

 more vigorous stand by transplanting, than when 

 the plants have grown from seed sown in the field 

 and have been cultivated by thinning out; and 

 the former plan has been found in our experience 

 to succeed the best all the way through. Still, 

 since the results of the same experiments will often 

 vary in different localities and under differing 

 conditions, it may be well for any one to try both 

 methods, and to follow up the trial far enough to 

 perceive which it is that seems the one best adapted 

 to his own situation. Much may be found to 

 depend upon the natural quality of the soil its 



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