thorunglily watered and finally, after each flat has been well 

 drained, sow the seeds as thinly as possible, and cover them 

 lightly with sand only (using no soil for covering them). Cover 

 the flats with sheets of glass and place them anywhere in the 

 green-honse or hot frame where they will be protected from direct 

 snnlight and yon will be, I promise you, greatly surprised at their 

 quick germination. 



If you have neitlier a green-house nor hot frame you ma^^ still 

 grow your tuberous Begonias from seed by starting them in pots 

 in sunny windows, but at night they must be removed to a room 

 that is not too cold, just as you would protect your bird or a 

 tender plant from tlie cold night. In the morning, after the 

 room is well freshened, the pots are brought back again to the 

 sunny-^^■indow. Several hundred plants may be grown in this 

 way. 



I want to caution you not to keep them too wet (nor yet too 

 dry) and ahcays guard them against a cold room at night. You 

 can readily tell when pot plants need water by tapping the pot 

 with a knife; if it ''rings clear," it is indeed in need of water! 



So we need not worry because of the fact that a hundred 

 tubers are now thirty dollars. Let us grow hundreds and hun- 

 dreds of tliem, both the single and double, and, as I said before, 

 we can do so from a dollar packet of seed. You realize, do you 

 not, that 3'ou will have a splendid stock of tubers from your 

 Spring sown seed and you may add to it, at your pleasure, year 

 after year? 



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