11.   If you are lucky enough to be able to provide the right conditions, pay attention to the germination times in the catalogs and on seed packets.

12.   In Warminster, Pa., at the Burpee seed factory, workers pick from hundreds of individual seed packets that correspond to orders.

13.   It is easy to grow annual herbs from inexpensive seed packets you can buy at almost any garden center or from your favorite catalog.

14.   My strategy was to let everything grow for a while until I could match up the vegetable leaves with the pictures on the seed packets.

15.   Others are new hybrids, developed specifically to bring the avant garde to ordinary seed packets.

16.   Seed packets and a remarkable poison-free bug killer are used to symbolize the power exercised by labels, logos and slogans in the world of mass consumption.

17.   Sow the seeds thinly along the dampened rows directly from the seed packet, following package directions for depth and spacing.

18.   The picture on the seed packet appealed to me but gave no information other than how to plant it.

19.   This information is printed on the backs of seed packets and on the little plastic ID tags that come with bedding plants.