RAISING FLOWERS FROM SEED 



inate. But the heliotrope is more difficult to 

 start, and unless the gardener is experienced 

 he should procure slips, and start them in 

 February in fine, sharp sand, transferring the 

 little plants when well rooted to thumb-pots, 

 and again to three-inch pots early in April. 

 The heliotrope requires more heat than the 

 hotbeds yield, and the slips must be grown 

 either in a greenhouse or in a window of a 

 rather warm living-room. 



Verbenas germinate readily, and seeds sown 

 in the hotbeds in March will be fine plants by 

 the end of May, when it is time to set them 

 out. 



All the single dahlias, too, are easily raised 

 from seed sown in the hotbeds about March 

 1st, and when so started the period of bloom 

 is greatly increased. By the early start thus 

 obtained the dahlias raised from seed are 

 particularly fine in form and color. Dormant 

 tubers of double dahlias can be started about 

 April 1st in a coldframe. 



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