in pots and boxes in March and April and attempt to get an "early start" for plants that will form a basis of supply for family use while they are wai

result has been entire failure. The seedlings grow fairly well at first, but soon become weak and die. If, by chance, a few survive until condition

drawbacks to plant-growth which prevail in the average dwelling, and is willing to do all he can to overcome th

room. An undue amount of warmth forces them into abnormal development in the early stages of their growth, and a little later o

te watering. The soil is either kept too wet or too dry. To

he result of failure to give the p

m seed in the living-room, but it cannot be done unless the amateur gardener is suffi

an of their being injured by an excess of heat. If the room in which they are kept has snug windows, in most instances it will get all the warmth that is needed by leaving open at night the door which connects it with the living-room. If the weather is very cold, the plants can be removed, temporarily, to the living-room, or they

he ordinary dwelling. It should be admitted to the room on every pleasant day by opening a window at the top, or a door at some distance from the plants. The fresh, cold

te the soil with it while only enough is required to make it moist. An over-supply of water at the roots, combined with too much heat and lack of fresh air, will

a shallow pan of galvanized iron, on a layer of coarse gravel, which raises it enough to allow water to circulate freely under it. Water is poured into the iron pan, using enough to come up about half an inch above the bottom of the seed-box, or in contact with the moss in it, and it should be kept at this height at all times. The moss absorbs the moisture like a sponge, and the soil above constantly sucks up a

t will be found a comparatively easy matter to grow plants satisfactorily from seed in the house, and have them in such healthy condition by the time it is safe to put them out in the garden that the