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you will ever see of those peas.” He had 
sown them all much too deep in the ground. 
When I remonstrated with my friend, and told 
him I thought he was very unkind to let the 
poor man spoil his whole row, and that he 
should have stopped him and explained near 
its beginning, he only laughed and said, 
“ He will remember better another time how 
to plant peas.” I hope you will not have such 
trying experiences while you are learning. 
“ Deep sowing ” generally means three or 
four inches below the surface of the ground, and 
only such things as nuts or acorns require this. 
The larger garden seeds, such as peas, sun¬ 
flowers, or nasturtiums, require one inch to 
one and a half inches of earth over them ; for 
smaller seeds, such as larkspur, nemophila, or 
mignonette, only half an inch of earth is enough ; 
while a few seeds are almost as fine as dust— 
some campanulas, lobelias, and many herbs—and 
these only need to be scattered finely on the 
top of the earth, or what is called “ surface 
sowing.” Care must be taken in sowing seeds 
to drop them evenly, not in lumps all together. 
You must especially be careful when sowing a 
border along the edge of a bed, or when they 
come up the border will be all of uneven widths, 
and will look bad and betray careless sowing. 
It is often a good plan not to sow all your seed 
