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transferring the seedlings to a warm border. Few 

 plants do better when not forced too much, that is, 

 merely given glass protection for a short time. Some 

 gardeners sow in a warm house, and as soon as the 

 plants are well through the soil transfer them to cold 

 frames. 



Seed of Early Wonder sown in five-inch pots, 

 say in the middle of March, and given cold-frame 

 protection, will make strong plants for planting out 

 a month later ; give shelter for a time. If hand 

 glasses can be spared so much the better, as, though 

 the shelter is not often required during the day, it 

 is so at night for a time, as the plant makes slow 

 progress in cold weather. 



The first sowing in the open depends upon the 

 soil, locality and seasons. In heavy wet soils one 

 cannot sow so early as when the soil is light, but the 

 staple can be improved with such light materials as 

 previously advised. In the South seed may be sown 

 in the second week in April, later in the Midlands, and 

 at the end of the month in the North, at a distance 

 of two feet apart between the rows for the medium 

 growers, and more for the stronger ones. Sow seed 

 every three weeks from the ist of April till the early 

 part of August, and there will be no break in the 

 supply. It is better to sow small quantities as ad- 

 vised than to make one or two large sowings, as, unless 

 the plant is well fed or watered, it fails to yield. 

 The later sowing should be so timed that the plants 

 require protection from frost. 



