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should not be allowed to dry out, nor to become 

 soggy with too much water. 



For starting summer-blooming bulbs the use 

 of moss in shallow boxes or baskets will be found 

 more convenient than the heavier soil. The 

 sphagnum moss used by florists for shipping 

 plants is the sort needed and may be used again 

 and again if necessary, the only merit it has being 

 its retention of moisture, exclusion of air and 

 lightness for handling. 



If one wishes to grow from seed for outdoor 

 planting the hardier annuals and perennials, then 

 somewhat larger and deeper flats should be used, 

 but none over four inches in depth should be un- 

 dertaken. In these such readily salable plants 

 as asters, salvias, balsams, cobsea scandens, 

 Shasta daisies, pansies, and the like will prove 

 a veritable little pin-money mine and equally 

 profitable will be found peppers, cauliflowers, 

 bush musk-melons and other of the choicer vege- 

 tables, all requiring, practically, the same treat- 

 ment. 



The shut-in who wishes to specialize in the 

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