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and the remainder with friable loam mixed with 

 well-decomposed leaf-mould. 



The seed, being sprinkled rather thickly on the 

 surface, should be very lightly covered, and either 

 placed out in the rain, or kept in a shady spot and 

 freely sprinkled with water from a watering-pot 

 morning and evening. When the seedlings have 

 attained a height of two or three inches, they should 

 be transplanted into small pots singly, or if the 

 operation is on a larger scale, into a finely-pre- 

 pared nursery bed, at three or four inches to a foot 

 apart, where they should stay until the following 

 rains, when they may be taken out singly with the 

 holemaker, without disturbing the earth around 

 the roots. 



