LESSON XIII 

 TRANSPLANTING 



Planting indoors. Doubtless you have seen your 

 father or mother plant seeds in a box of earth, keep 

 it in a warm place, and then when the plants were two 

 or three inches high, remove them to the garden. 

 The removal of plants from their place of early growth 

 to a new soil is transplanting. 



Hotbeds. Farm plants which require a longer 

 season than occurs in the north are raised by planting 

 the seeds indoors or in hotbeds ; and then setting them 

 out when the danger of frost is over. It is desirable 

 to have vegetables ready for market as early as possible, 

 and so these plants are started indoors long before 

 the weather outside is favorable to growth. When 

 favorable growing 

 conditions exist, 

 the plants are then 

 transplanted in the 

 garden or field. 



HOTBED 



Plants regularly 



raised in this way are tomatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, 

 peppers, egg plants, and celery. The young plants 

 are grown two or three months indoors before they are 

 removed to the open. Sometimes the young plants are 



