Excerpt from Beautiful Flowers From Seeds: Fall Season 1928-Spring Season 1929

In all but the coldest sections of the country the seeds of all perennials here offered may be sown right outside, but being m'ost careful to keep the seed bed shaded from the hot August and September sun. This can be easily accomplished by shading the bed with overhead canvas or strips of lath during the hottest part of the day; you must be most careful to keep the seed bed moist and the soil from baking; once a dry crust has formed, or you have forgotten to water properly at the critical time when the germs develop, it will be good-night to your seeds and some folks will work up another case against their seedsman! On the other hand, avoid too wet a con dition; don't sprinkle with a hose for you are apt to wash the seeds out of the ground, and do not - do not -bury your seeds to deeply into the soil; some fine seeds, such as from poppies, Pentstemons, Petunias, etc., should be mixed with a little dry soil or sand, and then merely pressed into the soil with a board or the palm of your hand. Too deep planting prob ably accounts for 90% of failures with flower seed.

Growing plants from seed is an easy matter, and a most charming and fascinating pastime, but you must use good judgment and some care. You may rest assured at the outset, and fasten that fact in' your mind, that your responsible seedsman, whose reputation is at stake, and who wants your good will always, and who is in the game mostly for the love of it (i refer to individuals, not big corpora tions), 'will go considerably out of his way to see to it that the seed he sells you are of the very best quality. I am more disappointed than you are when you don't succeed with the seed I sent you.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.