SOWING, TRANSPLANTING AND 

 CULTURE 



HAVING decided what flowers are to be grown, 

 there arises the great question of when to 

 plant. In spite of the many attempts that 

 are made every year to put the planting season on a 

 definite schedule of dates, this will never be possible. 

 There are too many variable factors to be taken into 

 consideration — latitude, altitude, character of the sea- 

 son, condition of the soil and so on. In the following 

 pages planting dates have been given, usually, but 

 it should be understood that these are intended only 

 as a rough guide. The amateur will do well to con- 

 sider that there are, in the big class of annuals, three 

 distinct subdivisions — hardy annuals, half-hardy an- 

 nuals and tender annuals. The first of these may be 

 sown outdoors as soon as the ground becomes mellow 

 and readily workable. This, roughly, is the first part 

 of April, in the vicinity of New York — the latitude 

 for which the dates in this book are given. North and 

 south of this latitude the planting date varies approxi- 

 mately a week with each hundred miles — earlier in the 

 South, naturally. The half-hardy annuals are treated 

 in one of two ways : started in a coldf rame in April, 

 to be transplanted into the open border in May, after 



