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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 463. 



rather than pitchers. A few may be allowed to flower and 

 ripen their seeds if it is intended to raise young plants by this 

 means. Hand pollination is necessary, as the male and female 

 flowers are produced on different spikes, and in some cases 

 on different plants. The variety N. Veitchii, for example, 

 usually produces female, while N. lanata generally throws 



post of chopped sphagnum and peat, with a little sand. A good 

 percentage of the seed will germinate, providing it has been 

 well ripened, but in a minimum temperature of sixty-five de- 

 grees it will take from two to three months. When large 

 enough the plants should be set singly into smallest size pots, 

 using the same compost as for sowing the seed. The pots 



Fig. 1. — Patton's Spruce, Tsuga Pattoniana, on Mount Ranier. — See page 1. 



male flowers, though this should not be taken as a hard 

 and fast rule. The seed takes several months to ripen, 

 so that the work is somewhat slow, though none the less inter- 

 esting. When nearing the ripening stage a close watch should 

 be kept or the pods may burst and the seeds drop out. The 

 seeds should be sown in pans as soon as gathered, in a coin- 



should be plunged in moss. It is a good plan to plunge them 

 in pans or boxes, as they can then be readily shifted about, 

 and it is thus easy to place them in a lighter situation. Addi- 

 tional shiftings must be attended to when required. The 

 raising of these seedlings requires considerable patience, as it 

 takes about three years of careful watching before the result 



