DOUBLE PETUNIAS
Petunias grow with little attention or care and in any soil when once started and bloom profusely all spring and summer. The large double varieties do not produce seed, but the pollen from them is artificially crossed on the large, single and fringed plants and the seed so produced will make a percentage of double blossoms. The giant-flowered types produce large, single, plain-edged or fringed-edeg blossoms, or very thicklv-double flowers. As petunia seed is exceedingly fine, start the plants in a box or flower pot and merely press into the soil after sowing and sift a little sand over to cover. If possible, allow the water to soak up from beneath. The weakest looking plants will develop the handsomest flowers, so save all the plants carefully.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 28 (Supplement)
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128DOUBLE PETUNIAS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 28 (Supplement)
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