SEED SOWING AND TRANSPLANTING. 



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dry the corn by coating it with dry ground plaster or other fine 

 absorbent. This treatment does not seem to hinder germination. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



Avoid transplanting as much as possible. — Whatever may 

 be said of its merits elsewhere does not apply in this section, 

 since the dry weather so common here in the season when 

 transplanting is done often makes the operation unsuccessful. 

 Undoubtedly one of the reasons why transplanted plants some- 

 times give better results than seedlings allowed to grow where 

 the seed is sown, is that they are allowed more room to develop 

 in, but if seedlings that are not moved are given the proper room 

 to develop they are just as good and generally far superior to 

 those that are transplanted. Transplanting, as a rule, is an in- 

 jury to plants and yet it is a necessary operation in the growing 

 of some of our most valuable vegetables. 



Pig-ure 16.— A box of young- lettuce plauts after being transplanted from the seec^ 

 box. These plauts may be moved to the open g-round or to hotbeds or cold 

 frames as soon as they crowd one another. This is a convenient way to grow 

 plants in dwelling-houses and in front of windows. This style of box is 

 often referred tu as a "flat.'* 



Success in Transplanting is dependent on a variety of con 



ditions. In moist weather the setting of plants in the open 



ground is a very simple operation and any one can succeed with 



it without much effort, but during dry weather the gardener's 



skill is taxed to the utmost to move plants successfully. One ot 



the most important elements for success in transplanting is a 



