10 PLANT PROPAGATION 
saving in the quantity of seed necessary, to sow in 
drills. They can also be more evenly covered the proper 
depth than when sown broadcast. The facilities for 
hoeing, stirring the soil, and destruction of weeds are 
also greatly increased. 
In watering beds or pots of fine seeds great care is 
needed, or they may be washed together in masses or 
ORCHID SEEDLINGS (SIx MONTHS), 
floated away:altogether. A very fine spray with the 
water-pot will answer for many, but in the case of ex- 
tremely fine seeds and Fern-spores it is better to grasp 
the pot by the rim, to dip it into a vessel of water, allow- 
ing the water to percolate through the hole in the base, 
and to rise up through the soil inside to near the surface, 
but not to permit any to run over the rim of the pot. 
