THE SEEDS OF VICTORY INSURE THE FRUITS OF PEACE 9 
HOW MUCH SEED TO BUY 
The following amounts of seed will plant in each case a garden row 100 feet long. Measure 
your rows and buy accordingly. Also compare your figures with planting table on page 23. 
String beans 
Lima beans. 
Cabbage. . . 
Carrot 
Cauliflower . 
Celery 
All squash. . 
Beets 
Sweet corn. . 
Lettuce. . . . 
Muskmelon. 
Cucumber . . 
34 to 1 pint 
34 to 1 pint 
. . . 34 ounce 
. . . . 1 ounce 
. . . 1 packet 
. . . 34 ounce 
. . . 34 ounce 
. . . 2 ounces 
34 pint 
. . . 34 ounce 
. . . 34 ounce 
. . 34 ounce 
Eggplant 34 ounce 
Kale, or Swiss chard 34 ounce 
Parsley 34 ounce 
Parsnip 34 ounce 
Vegetable oyster (salsify) 34 ounce 
Onion sets (bulbs) 1 quart 
Onion seed 1 ounce 
Peas 1 to 2 pints 
Radish 1 ounce 
Spinach 1 ounce 
Tomatoes 34 ounce 
Turnip J 4 ounce 
1 or 2 pecks of early potatoes and to 1 bushel of late potatoes are enough to plant to 
supply four persons. 
Fig. 7 — A paper band folded into the form of a berry 
box, without bottom, is a good holder for indoor seed 
planting. The picture shows how these are placed 
side by side in a flat box. 
To test plant 25 to 50 seed of each variety 
in an indoor seed box, or place between moist 
blotters or cloth between two plates. (Fig. 5.) 
Germination should take place within 2 to 8 
days and the number of seedlings which grow 
will show the percentage of germination. 
The seedlings should be kept for planting 
to prevent waste. 
The standard adopted by the United 
States Department of Agriculture for seed 
germination is as follows: 
Should produce 60 to 80 per cent: 
Celery, Parsley, Salsify, Eggplant, Parsnip. 
Should produce 80 to 85 per cent: 
Asparagus, Okra, Spinach, Carrot, Onion, Cauli- 
flower, Pepper. 
Should produce 85 to 90 per cent: 
Corn (sweet), Lettuce, Squash, Cress, Melon, 
Tomato, Cucumber, Pumpkin. 
Should produce 90 to 95 per cent: 
Bean, Mustard, Turnip, Cabbage, Pea, Radish. 
INDOOR PLANTING 
Earlier crops can be secured by planting 
certain seed indoors and setting the young 
plants out in the open garden after the 
weather becomes warm. This may be done 
with tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, 
peppers, and eggplant. 
Any wooden box, shallow and wide, 
will make an indoor garden. Put 1 inch 
of gravel or cinders in the bottom for drain- 
age, and fill to the top with good soil. Rows 
of plants may be two inches apart. 
Plant 8 or 10 seed to the inch, keep the 
soil damp, and set the box in a window. 
When the plants are an inch high trans- 
plant them to other seed boxes, spacing 
plants 2 inches apart. This insures sturdy 
plants with good root systems. 
Transplanting 
Before transplanting the plants to the 
garden set the box outdoors, in mild weather, 
to harden the plants. Set out each plant 
with a ball of the box dirt sticking to the 
roots. Thorough water- 
ing several hours be- 
fore transplanting 
causes the earth to 
stick as required. 
If the root system 
is broken in the re- 
moval trim away some 
of the larger leaves 
of the plants. In moist 
ground open a hole 
with trowel or dibble. 
Make the hole larger 
than is needed to 
hold the roots and 
a little deeper than 
the roots grew. Place 
roots in hole, and, 
with the hands, pack mato P i ant from pot to 
the soil firmly around garden, 
the plant. In dry soil 
pour a pint of water into each hole before 
inserting plant. Rake some dry earth about 
the surface surrounding each plant to hold 
the moisture. 
Transplanted plants cannot stand strong 
sunshine at first and cloudy days or late 
afternoon are preferable for transplanting. 
In bright weather place newspapers over 
them for a day or two, making tents of the 
papers, in the shape of an inverted V. 
A homemade paper pot, a round, bottom- 
less paper band or a berry box, filled with soil 
Fig. 8 — Transplanting to- 
