It's time to look around the garden for flower seeds to save!
Saving Flower Seeds.
Don't forget to save flower seeds, as they successively ripen.
Many careful and industrious gardeners are annoyed every Spring by thoughtless neighbors coming to beg seeds.
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| The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches [ed. William Robinson], vol. 40: (1891) |
Saving Flower Seeds.
Don't forget to save flower seeds, as they successively ripen.
Many careful and industrious gardeners are annoyed every Spring by thoughtless neighbors coming to beg seeds.
"I had plenty of flowers last season,'' they each say, "but neglected to save any seed; it was too great a bore to do it; please give me a few of several of the prettiest kinds of flowers, as you have a plenty."
And so it happens every Spring. Now, the only way to treat such people is to say, "No: save your own seeds; or if too careless or indolent for that, then buy them!"
There are cases, indeed, in which one person may ask for a few seeds of his neighbor; but no one should live by begging. Every person who pretends to have flowers, should make it a regular part of his Summer's business to save seeds for the next year's use.
Some persons keep all their old letter envelopes for gathering seed; others make little paper bags for the purpose. Or, if one docs not choose either of these methods, it is well to have an old newspaper always at hand when walking in the garden, to collect any seeds that may be ripe. Mark the name on the margin of the paper, and lay the seeds away to become thoroughly dry. On rainy days, these may be cleaned of chaff, done up in small packets, and laid away for the season.
As some of the finest of the late flowers are now ripening their seeds, our advice may be followed to good advantage.
And so it happens every Spring. Now, the only way to treat such people is to say, "No: save your own seeds; or if too careless or indolent for that, then buy them!"
There are cases, indeed, in which one person may ask for a few seeds of his neighbor; but no one should live by begging. Every person who pretends to have flowers, should make it a regular part of his Summer's business to save seeds for the next year's use.
Some persons keep all their old letter envelopes for gathering seed; others make little paper bags for the purpose. Or, if one docs not choose either of these methods, it is well to have an old newspaper always at hand when walking in the garden, to collect any seeds that may be ripe. Mark the name on the margin of the paper, and lay the seeds away to become thoroughly dry. On rainy days, these may be cleaned of chaff, done up in small packets, and laid away for the season.
As some of the finest of the late flowers are now ripening their seeds, our advice may be followed to good advantage.
-American Agriculturist
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| Step, E., Bois, D., Favourite flowers of garden and greenhouse, vol. 2: t. 139 (1896-1897) |
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