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Identifier: childrengardens00jeky (find matches)
Title: Children and gardens
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
Subjects: Gardening Children Amusements
Publisher: London, Offices of 'Country life', ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ide—that is to say, in frames and greenhouses—aswell as out. You will find he is sowing lots of seed inpans and little shallow boxes. Some of these arehalf-hardy annuals ; grand things like African Marigoldsand Zinnias, and Stocks and Asters. They want awarmer climate than ours for growing straight out-of-doors, so we sow them in heat, as gardeners say, or atany rate with the protection of a frame. This is thebest chance to watch the way the little seedlings comeout of the ground and to get to know them in the seed-leaf state. For most plants begin their growth with apair of seed-leaves that are of a simple shape, quiteunlike that of the leaves that are to follow. When thenext pair of leaves comes we speak of the seedling asbeing just out of seed-leaf, and about a fortnight laterwe speak of the seedlings as being big enough tohandle; many of them are then pricked off separately. Pricking off means separating the little plants andplanting them in rows in other boxes, where they re-
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PRICKING OFF SEEDLINGS.

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