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Flower Planting
Advice Given
Sow seed? of early flowers in flats now. They’ll be ready for transplanting to your flower garden in a few weeks.
That’s t:ie advice from A. G. Smith, Jr., associate horticulturist at V.P.I.
lit- .-•ays the flats should be small, not over two inches deep, with ample cracks in the bottom fo.r drainage. Fill 1£ inches deep with a mixture of screened loam and leafmold, or loam and old manure. Sow seed thinly in rows, and water with warm water.
After the seeds come up, and when the soil is not wet, scratch between the rows with a pencil or ice pick. Water between rows, and let the water soak into the little trenches. Leave base of plants dry, and keep in the sun as much as possible. Thin plants if they are crowded. As soon as they are large enough to handle, lift ‘with point of knife and transplant. Put them in other flats two inches apart, or in plant beds.
Avoid the use of manure and nitiogen fertilizers while the plants arc in flat.-, or pots. If the plants lack greyn color, stir one teaspoon of 5-10-0 fertilizer in a' quart of water.
Rooted cuttings of hardy chrysanthc-nT ms should always be grown in flats or pots until they develop strong roots. They may then be planted in the flower horde!' with little chance of loss.
Benjamin Franklin was founder of University of Pennsylvania.
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