SEEDLINGS
SHOULD NEVER BE CROWDED. If seedings raised in pots or boxes are allowed to become crowded they will never make healthy, strong plants. Growth will be weak and spindly and' the seedlings a ready prey to the damping-off disease. The moral is to prick out the seedlings as soon as they are large enough to handle conveniently. For the general run of seedlings a compost of equal parts of loam and leaf-mould and half a part of sand is suitable and, except in the case of small, slow-growing seedlings, they may be pricked out in shallow boxes at one and a-half inches apart.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1938, Page 4
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