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PREPARATION OF SOIL TO START buts, 
Sift ordinary garden soil using 
a course flour sieve. Add an 
equal bulk og granulated peat 
moss, Mix thoroughly and either 
drench with several quarts of 
bolling water per 9":pot full or 
wet thoroughly and bake in a hot 
Oven Tor.eiieli nour, Allow. te 
Standountil nearly dry,.-Soil-is 
now sterile for planting, 
Sterilige the vpots,/bouLy pang or 
flats by immersing them in cold 
water to which has been added <¢ 
teaspoontul of SiwASAN to each 
& gallons, ,.Eulb pans make the best 
containers for small seeds, as 
they can be watered from the 
bottom by standing in water, 
Fill with. prepered soil, water 
thoroughly and allow to stand 
until nearly dry. Sow seeds thin 
spacing as evenly as possible, 
Cover lightly with dry peat moss 
or prepared soil and press down, 
Fine seeds need no covering of 
soil. Cover with glass, 
Seed will germinate more quickly 
if container is set in a saucer 
of water and placed on the top 
of the warming oven of the kit- 
chen range away from the smoke 
pipe. This supplies bottom heat, 
As soon as the plants appear place 
in sunny window. Keep seedlings 
moist but not wet, 
There is no advantage in sowin, 
most ennuals in the house. They 
do better if sown in the open 
ground as soon as it becomes 
wetm. 
