April, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
311 
You can do the work better, much better, 
with the seed drill — the rows will be 
straighter, the seed sown more evenly, 
and the plants will come up in a thin, 
narrow line, which very greatly facili¬ 
tates the work of cultivating and weed¬ 
ing. By all means, your garden equip¬ 
ment should include a garden line on a 
reel; without it you will be tempted to put 
in some rows “by eye" when you are in a 
hurry, and the result is likely to sadden 
your life for the rest of the season when¬ 
ever you have occasion to look at it. Get 
every row as straight as a string, and 
have them parallel. A yard stick, such 
as many hardware stores are in the habit 
of giving away for advertising, is very 
handy to have along in the wheel-barrow 
when you are planting. 
Many flower seeds, however, and occa¬ 
sionally vegetable seeds, in a small gar¬ 
den cannot be put in with a seed drill; 
and wherever planting by hand becomes 
necessary, the job should, of course, be 
done well. A great convenience when 
sowing by hand is to have a wide, flat 
board of convenient length upon which to 
stand or kneel while sowing the seeds; it 
serves also as a straight-edge, as the drill 
for the seed can be marked along one 
side of it, and, after the seed is sown 
and covered, the edge of the board may 
be pressed down along the row, thus 
finning the seed in the soil. For very 
fine flower seeds, it is well to have a sup¬ 
ply of a special soil for covering mixed 
up, and the drill can be filled with this, 
after the seed is sown. Occasionally, 
where mass effects are desired, fine seeds 
are sown broadcast; in this case the sur¬ 
face, which should be especially dug up 
and raked, is made as fine as possible, 
and the seed, after being scattered thinly, 
is raked lightly into the surface of the 
soil. 
Some seed is very refractory and slow 
to germinate. A good plan with seed 
such as these-—parsley and celery are in¬ 
stances — is to soak them from twelve to 
twenty-four hours in lukewarm water be¬ 
fore planting them in a warm place, and 
sometimes they are actually pre-spouted 
before planting by leaving them either in 
water or in a very moist, warm place 
until the sprouts actually begin to appear. 
Other seeds, such as cannas and noon- 
flowers, are covered with very hard shells, 
which the swelling germ has difficulty in 
bursting; these are assisted by making 
one or two small notches with a sharp 
knife blade, or by filing a slit in the shell 
part way around with a very fine file. 
In addition to this, they may be soaked 
until they begin to swell before planting. 
Still other seeds, such as lima beans and 
Castorol beans should be placed into the 
soil with the germ, or “eye,” down, so 
that the large, leafy cotyledons will be 
able to force tbeir way through the soil 
to the surface. 
Of course, in planting these seeds of 
either flowers or vegetables, you must 
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