PREPARATION OF SOIL TO START Suuwe. 
O1lft ordinary garden soil using 
2 course flour ‘sieve. Add an 
equal bulk og granulated peat 
moss. Mix. thoroughly -and-.erther 
Grench with several cuarts of 
boLbine .waten per St pot full or 
wet thoroughly and bake in ‘a hot 
oven for -e-hnalt nour. Ablow’ to 
Stand-until nearly dry. Soil is 
now: sterile for planting, 
Stexrilize the pote,-cukb pans or 
flats by immersin, then in cohd 
water to which has been added ¢ 
teaspoontul of SimASAN to each 
&@ gallons, Eulbd pans make the best 
conteiners for small seéds,:’ as. 
paéey- can be watered -Trom the 
bottom-py standing in water, 
Fill with prepered soil, wate? 
-tnorougnly and allow to stand 
until nearly dry. Sow seeds. thin 
spacing das evenly as possible} 
Cover ddehtly with dry péet Mo'ss 
or prepared soil and press down, 
Pine «<eeds need no covering of 
S0ll, 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 adadventage ln scowls 
most annuals in the house, Mey Hi 
do better if sown in. the open 
ground es soon ag it becoucs. 
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