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CHAPTER IIL 
SOWING SEEDS-PLANTING BULBS AND 
TUBERS—TRANSPLANTING AND WATERING® 
Sowing Seeds .—The principal points to be 
attended to in sowing seeds are, first, to pre¬ 
pare the ground so that the young and ten¬ 
der roots thrown out by the seeds may easily 
penetrate into it; secondly, to fix the seeds 
firmly in the soil; thirdly, to cover them, so 
as to exclude the light, which impedes vege¬ 
tation, and to preserve a sufficiency of moist¬ 
ure round them to encourage it; and, 
fourthly, not to bury them so deeply as either 
to deprive them of the beneficial influence of 
the air, or to throw any unnecessary impe¬ 
diments in the way of their ascending shoots. 
The preparation of the soil has been already 
