QUANTITY PRODUCTION 



The appetites of these pests often increase to 

 greater proportions than can be appeased by the 

 growth of the remaining plants and they must be 

 carefully sought in or under the boxes. 



Sometimes slugs may be headed off for a time 

 by sprinkling lime, red pepper, quassia, or tobacco 

 dust in their paths. Thrip and the aphides are 

 best destroyed by fumigating the houses once a 

 week or twice a month with tobacco smoke; the 

 frequency may be regulated according to the 

 abundance and the persistence of the enemy. 



All in all, it is a severe gauntlet that the 

 little seedling is called upon to pass. Yet if the 

 methods described in this chapter are carefully 

 followed out, it is possible to grow successfully 

 any seed, from whatever climate or soil or loca- 

 tion, that has the least germ of life within it. 



These methods have been successfully used 

 with the seeds I am constantly receiving from 

 numerous collectors in Siberia, Brazil, Chili, 

 Argentina, Patagonia, Mexico, Central America, 

 the Philippine Islands, Alaska, British Columbia, 

 North and South Africa, Europe, India, South 

 Sea Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Central and 

 Western China, Japan, and Korea. 



By sedulous attention to the details above out- 

 lined, the raising of seedlings becomes so certain 

 a procedure that the loss should not exceed one 



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