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sometimes peep out, and mixtures cannot always be avoided. We find that some variety 

 are lew reliable thap others; but, while the good predominates, vex not over tiTsS toS 

 ot a few seeds, but try again with us to reach the standard ' 



That seeds oftentimes cease to grow is an established fact; but it is equally certain that 

 that fact alone ,s no positive proof that the seeds are worthless. 1'robablv . Jnety per cen 

 of all the flower-seeds sold in .his country go into the hands of persons who have LTdea of 

 howseeds should be grown /[any of them, perhaps, accustomed to putting into t e ground 

 peas, beans radishes & c ., fancy themselves acquainted with sowing seeds in wneraP and 

 when they fail the blame ,s la d, not upon their ignorance, but upon the seeCn' Lit 

 to be wondered at, then that there are occasional complaints that seeds do not Z» 



An example or two, about which there can be no mistake, will explain our mC* A 

 few years since, some seeds sent from India to a great garden near LrnXn 3'. A 

 amount o skill ought to have been found, were, i^^^r^tZXl 

 -will not grow." 1 wo years afterwards, what remained of the original seed a though so 

 much older, was sown, and it grew freely. Whv was this? The nvrl,, ,.;., ' ? 

 the gardener had been changfd. We have many times plan ed " edTJi ich refS to 

 grow and, after waiting a sufficient time, have then planted more out of t l e anie narce? 

 which vegetated readdy This is not an uncommon occurrence among garde, ers And" 

 why is this? We would answer, that the fault may have been in pLSSHFfa ft. 

 iKS" ^ C!lUS<5 but 0116 ^ ™ do k »™,~^ SSPwS not* 



Complaints that seed are not good are perennial; and we quite believe that in „i„,t Pm 

 cases out of twenty, they arise from injudicious treatment. Wttito^ttttMffl 

 would convince any one, that, if we know our own interest we should not C f , 



out poor seed for the sake of 'saving a few shillings, at the'rlk of r fi i " the'tte W e 

 are striving to extend. Nothing, indeed, is more" barbarous than the way fn which seeds 

 are sometimes treated. Some ara overwhelmed with earth; others are Scattered on fte 

 nirmce; seme are allowed to lie in a puddle; some are planted where no * ™, 

 them; slugs are allowed to devour them; domestic fowls and other birds are pen itted i to 

 feas on them Another reason why seeds sometimes fail to give satisfactions 1 t" at eon e 

 are too much in a hurry to get their seeds into the ground; and probably more t- 

 ment anses from too early sowing than from all other causes nut together? AnlX, 

 again, many will allow the weeds to grow with the seeds, until the" former cannot hi 

 removed without destroying the latter; and we have known more than one cTse where tl o 

 plants have been pulled up with the weeds.-the person not bein- able o ,1 s h 1 h 

 between them In all these cases, the seeds are found to be in fault, and the blame i n , 

 unreasonably thrown upon the seedsman. ' me 1S most 



We would suggest to our friends who fail to grow their seeds, that it may be as well to 

 inquire whe her any of these ingenious methods of destroying vegetabte life have been 

 practised in their own cases. ° v &°"' ula uio U!lv ° oeeu 



