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“EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN” 
our 1911 catalogue, is without exception the best we have ever issued. 208 pages, 8 
colored plates, 800 photo engravings, showing actual results without exaggeration, make 
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contains full cultural directions for flowers and vegetables. 
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New York City 
(Continued from page 194) 
beginner, however, had better start by 
planting seeds in the early spring to ob¬ 
tain plants to set out in the open later. 
A standard unit in hotbed and cold- 
frame construction consists of a frame of 
four sash, each three feet by six. In such 
a hotbed all the flowers and vegetables 
that a small garden can possibly use may 
be grown. One sash may be devoted to 
early lettuce and radishes, another to 
flower seeds, and possibly the third and 
fourth to vegetables that are to be trans¬ 
planted. The usual method is to plant the 
seeds in flats and later to transplant them 
directly into the soil of the hotbed. 
There is a profitable side to hotbeds that 
need not be overlooked by any gardener 
not averse to turning an honest penny. A 
small paper of tomato, egg-plant or pepper 
seed will produce enough plants for a 
dozen gardens, and as a rule a ready mar¬ 
ket may be found for the excess plants at 
ten or fifteen cents a dozen. 
It is a good plan to first soak in water 
all the seeds that are to be planted in the 
hotbed. This will insure their germination 
more quickly. It is also an excellent prac¬ 
tice to mix small garden seeds with three 
or four times their bulk of dry sand before 
sowing. In this way the tendency to plant 
too thickly will be modified somewhat, but 
you may be sure that in any case you will 
have many more plants growing in a given 
space than can do well, so that the thin¬ 
ning process must be carried on with a 
heavy hand. If your plants grow spindly 
and “leggy” it is because they are too far 
from the light. The inside ground level 
of the hotbed should be not more than six 
or eight inches from the glass to insure the 
best results. 
I f the soil in which the plants are grow¬ 
ing is poor, their growth may be greatly 
stimulated by the use of nitrate of soda. 
This chemical, however, will burn them un¬ 
less it is used in very dilute solutions. A 
handful to a pail of water is sufficiently 
strong. 
Self-sowing Annuals 
T HERE are a few annuals which by 
their persistent self-sowing quali¬ 
ties possess practically the value of peren¬ 
nials, provided of course that their nature 
be understood and the plants treated ac¬ 
cordingly. Annual phlox is one of the 
varieties that comes up thicker each year, 
the seed living over our winters where 
twenty below zero is no rare occurrence. 
Nicotianna is another prolific self-sowing 
annual with the slight fault that some of 
the seed is sure to scatter and cause plants 
to spring up in all manner of odd places. 
Nicotianna, however, is a drought resister, 
and though it stops growth in the absence 
of moisture, it will not die, but is ready 
to start up again whenever water is sup¬ 
plied. Cosmos likewise is a ready self- 
sower, as are also the bachelor buttons, 
considerable of the seed germinating in 
fall, and the young plants passing the 
winter unprotected underneath the snow. 
(Continued on page 198) 
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