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pend upon the triteness of the seed. You have 

 plants, to be sure ; that is to say, you will have 

 something grow ; but you will not, if the seed be 

 not^rwe, have the thing you -want. 



130. To insure truth in seed, you must, if you 

 purchase, take all the precautions recommended 

 as to sort of seed. It will be seen presently, that, 

 to save true seed yourself, is by no means an easy 

 matte)*. And, therefore, you must sometimes 

 purchase. Find a seedsman that does not deceive 

 you, and stick to him. But, ebserve, that no 

 seedsman can always be sure. He cannot raise 

 all his seeds himself. He must trust to others. 

 Of course, he may, himself, be deceived. Some 

 kinds of seed will keep a good many years ; and, 

 therefore, when you find, that you have got some 

 uery true seed of any sort, get some mre of it ; 

 get as much as will last you for the number of 

 years that such seed will keep; and, to know 

 how many years the seeds of vegetables and 

 herbs will keep, see paragraph 150. 



SOUNDNESS OF SEED. 



131. Seed may be of the right sort ; it maybe 

 true to its sort ; and, yet, if it be unsound^ it will 

 not grow, and, f course, is a great deal worse 

 than useless, because the sowing of it occasions 

 loss of time, loss of cost of seed, loss f use of 

 laqd, and loss of labour, to say nothing about the 

 disappointment and mortification. Here, again, 

 if you purchase, you must rely on the seedsman ; 

 and, therefore, all the aforementioned precautions 

 are necessary as to this point also. In this case 

 (especially if the sowing be exteflsiva) the injury 



