How to Grow Plants from Seeds 189 



For cabbage, kohl-rabi, head lettuce, tomato, pep- 

 per, eggplant, and celery the young seedlings should 

 be transplanted from the seed pan to flats when from 

 i to 2 inches in height and given plenty of space in the 

 new flat. Transplanting from seed pans to flats, as the 

 plants become larger, requires more room in hot- 

 beds ; but by this time the weather will probably be 

 mild enough to allow the use of cold frames or temporary 

 shelters for some of the flats. 



Special methods of growing seedlings. The seedlings 

 of bean, corn, pumpkin, squash, cucumber, and okra 

 may also be started in a greenhouse, hotbed, or cold 



FIG. 112. Carrying seedlings that have been grown in a cold frame to the 

 garden for transplanting. This picture illustrates the proper way of carrying 

 a flat. Notice that the fingers of the right hand are crooked around the corner 

 of the box. By holding a flat in this way there is no danger of tipping it, or of 

 losing the balance of the box and thus dropping it. 



