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or more for it if necessary, but he immediately dug it 
up and sold it to me for eight cents. 
Someone said to me recently, “I suppose the reason 
I don’t have blooms like yours is because I don’t know 
how to care for them correctly.” Of course, pansies will 
do a great deal better with proper care, but in order to 
obtain giant blooms, the seed must come from a giant 
strain. Several times I have found stray pansies on 
our place where they were nearly choked with grass and 
weeds, and yet the blooms were so good that I have 
transplanted them into one of my seed-beds. That 
proved to me that “blood will tell” even among pansies 
growing under the most unfavorable conditions. 
There is no pleasure nor profit working with scrub 
stock of any kind and in working up a strain of pansies 
it pays to spend time and effort to secure the very best. 
Then, having secured the best seed, the grower will 
be wonderfully rewarded if he gives his pansies intelli¬ 
gent care. One of the most important things in order 
to secure best results is to plant the seed in late summer 
or early fall. They may be planted as late as October 
and it is far better to do so than to wait till spring but 
I prefer planting early enough so the seedlings may be 
transplanted and become well established before the 
cold weather sets in. If the seed is planted as late as 
October it is safer to wait till spring to transplant them. 
The little plants will not seem to grow much all winter 
but they are making splendid root systems. Pansies do 
best if their early growth is slow and if they are allowed 
to become sturdy, stalky plants by wintering it through 
in the open. 
Pansy plants should not be dug for market as soon 
as their first blooms are fully open. A bloom increases 
