Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Catalogue for 1881: Containing a List of Garden, Field and Flower Seeds, Together With Prices and Cultural Directions
Green-house seeds should be sewn in pots or pans half full of drainage (broken charcoal preferable); cover this with rough siftings of mould and the surface with fine soil and silver sand, and moisten, using a fine rose. Sow seed evenly over the surface, cover very lightly, keeping from the rays of the sun until the plants show the third leaf, then transplant into seed pans three-fourths of an inch apart, keeping them under a frame until perfectly recovered, giving a little air to strengthen them. As soon as they begin to touch each other transplant into small pots and keep in a cool, airy part of the green-house near the glass, repotting them when necessary.
Soil. - The preparation of the soil, especially for sowing the smaller kinds of seeds, is of the greatest importance, the success or failure of the crop depending largely upon it. A mellow loam, which is a medium earth between the extremes of clay and sand, made rich with leaf mould and thoroughly rotted manure or brewers' hops well mixed and made fine, form a light, friable soil, through which the young plants can easily penetrate, and which will not bake in the sun after watering. If the soil is heavy, add more leaf or sod mould, manure, or hops in proportion, but always remember that the fertilizer must be well rotted, and, as well as the soil, thoroughly pulverized. The sweepings from a paved street mixed with light soil will answer very well where it is not convenient to obtain leaf mould 01 thoroughly rotted manure. It must not be forgotten that the soil should be light so that the delicate germs may force their way through.
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