How to Grow Plants from Seeds 189 
For cabbage, kohl-rabi, head lettuce, tomato, pep- 
per, eggplant, and celery the young seedlings should 
be transplanted from the seed pan to flats when from 
1 to 2 inches in height and given plenty of space in the 
new flat. Transplanting from seed pans to flats, as the 
plants become larger, requires more room in _ hot- 
beds; but by this time the weather will probably be 
mild enough to allow the use of cold frames or temporary 
shelters for some of the flats. 
Special methods of growing seedlings. The seedlings 
of bean, corn, pumpkin, squash, cucumber, and okra 
may also be started in a greenhouse, hotbed, or cold 
Fic. 112. Carrying seedlings that have been grown ina cold frame to the 
garden for transplanting. This picture illustrates the proper way of carrying 
a flat. Notice that the fingers of the right hand are crooked around the corner 
of the box. By holding a flat in this way there is no danger of tipping it, or of 
losing the balance of the box and thus dropping it. 
