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34 THE 
GARDEN MAGAZINE 
FEBRUARY, 
1908 
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Starting Vegetable and Flower 
Seeds 
DPSS February prepare the garden and 
flower beds to be planted next month. 
As the soil cannot be made too fine and loose 
for flowers and vegetables, a dressing of well 
rotted manure should be spread on the surface 
and dug or plowed to a depth of twelve 
inches. Jf manure is not convenient, use a 
commercial fertilizer at the rate of twenty 
pounds to forty square yards of soil. 
Dahlias, which flower freely during the 
first season, are very easily grown thus: Sow 
seed thinly in drills about half an inch deep 
in boxes of rich soil either in the house or in 
the hot bed. 
Sow seed of heliotrope, godetia, mimulus, 
abutilon, begonia, canna, and petunia in hot- 
beds, or in boxes in the house, for flowering 
in the spring, early summer, and fall. Peel 
off the outer seed coat of the canna seeds or 
file them so as to enable them to germinate 
more freely. 
If you have not sown seed of early toma- 
toes, peppers, and eggplants, sow them now 
in hotbeds or in boxes in the house, and they 
will furnish fruit for use in June. 
Onions can be grown from seed sown in the 
open ground where also cabbage and cauli- 
flower may be sown the last of this month. 
Set out young cabbage and cauliflower plants 
now if they have been hardened off. 
Sow seed of garden and sweet peas during 
this month, the late tall sorts being the ones 
to plant now. You cannot have too many of 
these in your garden. 
The last of the month is the best time for 
planting seed of herbs in the open ground. 
Sow a full assortment of these, as after they 
have commenced growing they require but 
very little care. 
During this month plant out early Irish 
potatoes in well prepared, rich, sandy soil 
that has been well fertilized. The rows 
should be made two or three feet apart, the 
potatoes planted from eight to twelve inches 
apart in the row, and covered two inches deep. 
Green cotton seed is a better fertilize for 
potatoes than the commercial fertilizer but 
to get the best results use them together at the 
rate of sixty bushels of cotton seed and one 
thousand pounds of fertilizer to an acre. 
After the potatoes have been planted, cover 
the surface of the soil with one or two inches 
of pine straw. The potatoes will then not 
require any attention as the straw will keep 
them free from seeds and it will also keep the 
soil warm, loose, and moist. 
Georgia. THOMAS J. STEED. 
