Chapter SEVEN 



Crattspiantmjj an* Repotting 



TENDER annuals should not be planted 

 out of doors until all danger of frost 

 is past usually about the twentieth 

 of May in the latitude of Detroit and 

 Chicago, and correspondingly earlier 

 in the latitude of Philadelphia. Corn-planting time 

 is safe in all latitudes. Even hardy annuals, if not 

 too crowded, do better in hotbeds and boxes until 

 the nights are warm. Vines especially suffer from 

 cold nights and cold ground, and often receive a set- 

 back from which they may not recover all summer. 



It is best to prepare the beds a few days in advance 

 that they may settle, as freshly dug soil is too loose 

 for the roots of tender seedlings. 



For solid beds of one flower make straight, paral- 

 lel rows about nine inches apart for plants like Pan- 

 sies, and from twelve to eighteen for Asters and their 

 kind. A most convenient method is to use a board 

 the length of the bed, or as long as convenient, with 

 the distance between the plants marked on it. By 



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