A-B-C OF VEGETABLE GARDENING 



Don't depend upon home-grown seed. 

 Some of it may be just as good as that 

 which can be bought from rehable seeds- 

 men, but the probabihties are that it is 

 not, because of the tendencies of most 

 plants to ''mix.^^ Plants grown from seed 

 saved from the home garden often — and gen- 

 erally — show some of the characteristics of 

 several varieties of the same family, and 

 frequently these characteristics are not the 

 ones we would like to perpetuate. Seedlings 

 from varieties poUenized by other varieties 

 show a decided inclination to revert to orig- 

 inal types, and these are in most instances 

 the very characteristics we would like to get 

 away from. It is always advisable to pro- 

 cure fresh seed each season, and to procure it 

 from men who make seed-growing a specialty. 



The housewife who likes to make her table 

 and the food she places upon it as attractive 

 as possible, will do well to pot a few plants 

 of parsley in early fall. Choose for this 

 purpose the smaller plants. Three or four 

 can be put into one pot if the latter is of good 

 size. These can be kept in the kitchen 

 window, where they will be quite as orna- 

 mental as most house plants, or they can be 



kept in the cellar window if frost is prevented 



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