20 Making a Garden to Bloom This Year 
air possible, without chilling them, all the 
time. Remember it is the breath of life 
to them as well as to us. Water them 
whenever the soil looks light-colored and 
dry on top — not oftener — and shade from 
the noonday sun for a day or two after 
transplanting. 
Prepare the soil outdoors just as care- 
fully, as far as your preparations go, as 
you have that for the seeds. This has al- 
ready been spoken of. Take the little 
plants up just as carefully when it comes 
to setting them into permanent quarters, 
even though they are very much bigger 
and sturdier, as you did when moving them 
the first time, if they are in flats. If they 
are in the paper pots it is simply a mat- 
ter of stripping off the pot and setting 
them into a hole exactly the size of the 
earth ball. Be sure that this hole has no 
pocket at the bottom of it, however — that 
is, a place down in the middle that is a lit- 
tle deeper, and that remains void of earth 
when the plant is settled into place. Such 
pockets are very disastrous — and very 
easy to leave, unless one is on the lookout 
for them. 
Keep the soil on top loose, always: if this 
