PLANTING SEEDS
PLANTING SEEDS.
Any reliable seed house can be depended upon for good seeds; but even so, there is a great risk in
seeds.
A seed may to all appearances be all right and yet not have within it vitality enough, or power,
to produce a hardy...
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PLANTING SEEDS
PLANTING SEEDS.
Any reliable seed house can be depended upon for good seeds; but even so, there is a great risk in
seeds.
A seed may to all appearances be all right and yet not have within it vitality enough, or power,
to produce a hardy plant.
If you save seed from your own plants you are able to choose carefully.
Suppose you are saving seed
of aster plants.
What blossoms shall you decide upon? Now it is not the blossom only which you must
consider, but the entire plant.
Why? Because a weak, straggly plant may produce one fine blossom.
Looking at that one blossom so really beautiful you think of the numberless equally lovely plants you
are going to have from the seeds.
But just as likely as not the seeds will produce plants like the
parent plant.
So in seed selection the entire plant is to be considered.
Is it sturdy, strong, well shaped and
symmetrical; does it have a goodly number of fine blossoms? These are questions to ask in seed
selection.
If you should
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