THE GARDEN PRIMER 



Whenever the instructions on a seed packet direct 

 that the seed be sown where it is wanted in the garden, 

 and say nothing about transplanting, it is very likely 

 that the plant is one of those which puts forth such a 

 root and the direction should be literally followed, else 

 there will be failure. 



Good-sized, growing plants with a mass of roots 

 large enough to need some earth removed to make 

 room to set them, may be firmed into place by filling 

 with water, gently poured, a depression left around their 

 crown. After this has settled, the rest of the earth is 

 thrown into place and thus the whole operation is 

 accomplished with comparatively no violence or shock 

 to even the tenderest rootlets. 



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