Excerpt from L. B. Case's Botanical Index, Vol. 2: An Illustrated Quarterly Botanical Magazine; July 1879 In order to have plants in flower by June, the seed should be sown in March, in a well drained seed pan, filled with light sandy soil (eu tirely free from. Any mixture of manure, however well decomposed). The seed should be slightly pressed into earth and the pan placed in aanodérate ly warm place, placing a piece of glass over the pan, and covering the glass with thick paper until the seed have germinated, when all cov ering must be removed, and the young plants shaded during bright sunshine. When sufficiently ad vanced they should be pricked into pans of light soil, say one part good loam and one of finely sifted leaf soil. When about one-half inch high pot singly in three-inch pots. 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.