With labor, other expense and space occupied to be considered, 
there is no crop grown that will pay the handsome profit of a bed 
of pansy seedlings or blooming plants. 
The unusually high germinating qualities of Mastodon Pansy 
Seed is a revelation to all extensive growers who use our seed. 
PANSY SEED, ABOUT 5000 PLANTS PER OUNCE 
By Fritz Bahr 
You don’t have to obtain 5000 plants out of an ounce of Pansy 
seed in order to make it pay, even if the ounce should cost you 
$7, $8, or $10. But you do have to grow on plants with flowers 
superior to ordinary stock. Sowing expensive Pansy seed and get- 
ting the highest percentage of seeds to germinate and develop into 
plants, means that you must sow in rows in a mellow soil and cover 
the seed but lightly. Do it out in the open if you only grow ona 
few thousand plants. Make use of a portable coldframe; place a 
little shade over the seeded surface and, if possible, maintain even 
moisture up to the time the little plants are well started. When 
the seed leaves appear, they don’t want to be shaded but, at the 
Same time, you can’t afford to let them get along the best they 
can in a hard baked dry surface. The more you pay for seed the 
less you can afford to be careless about sowing and caring for the 
little plants, if you want to make money out of them.—Florists’ 
Exchange. 
DAMPING OFF 
If you have any trouble with your seedlings damping off, we 
recommend that you treat your seed with semesan or copper oxide 
powders. Rootone applied with the disinfectant dust will often 
produce a better root system and subsequently a superior plant. 
Failure to treat seed with some disinfectant frequently causes loss 
of the entire crop. 
It is our practice to water more heavily in the morning and 
lighter in the afternoon so that the beds never go into the night 
too wet. Time your watering with the weather. Mildew and damp- 
ing off are almost sure to follow if late waterings are made. If 
your seedlings appear to be affected by damping off a liquid appli- 
cation of Semesan may help to arrest the condition. 
For the Blooming Plant Trade 
Make your beds five feet wide, and line them out so that the 
paths between the beds will afford drainage. In a rainy climate 
or wet soil it’s a good plan to raise your beds by making your 
paths deep. Set seedlings as deeply as possible without covering 
or smothering them, as they will gradually climb out of the 
ground, and in rows across the bed 7 inches apart and 5 to 7 
inches apart in the row. 
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