"Flats" With Sprouting Seedlings 



All manner o/ seeds are sown in the "flats," and 

 Mr. Burbank has so perjecled the method that he usually 

 sprouts ninety-nine seeds in a hundred. The same method is used 

 Jot the commonest flower and the rarest exotic. "Flats" grow- 

 ing hybrid cactuses are side by side in his green- 

 house with those containing orchard fruits, 

 and flowers o/ many species. 



