proportions, is found to be a proper compoft for tbe Carnation 
Care Ihould be taken that no worms, grubs, or other infeCts, 
be introduced with the dung; to prevent this, the dung, when 
fifted fine, fhould be expofed to the rays of the fun, on a hot 
fummer’s day, till perfectly dry, and then put by in a box for 
life; ftill more to increafe the luxuriance of the plants, water 
it in the fpring and fummer with an infufion of fheep’s dung. 
The Carnation is propagated by feeds, layers, and pipings; 
new varieties can only be raifed from feed, which, however, 
is fparingly produced from good flowers, becaufe the petals 
are fo multiplied as nearly to exclude the parts of the Puri- 
fication elfential to their production. 
“ The feed muft be fown in April, in pots or boxes, very 
" thin, and placed upon an Eaft border. 
“In July, tranfplant them upon a bed in an open fituation, 
w at about four inches afunder; at the end of Auguft tranlplant 
" them again upon another bed, at about ten inches afunder, 
“ and there let them remain till they flower : fhade them till 
” they have taken root, and in very fevere weather in winter, 
u cover the bed with mats over fome hoops. 
“ The following fummer they will flower, when you muft 
u mark fuch as you like, make layers from, and pot them.’* 
Ellis’s Gardener s Pocket Calendar. 
The means of increafing thefe plants by layers and pipings, 
are known to every Gardener. 
Such as wifh for more minute information concerning the 
culture, properties, divifions, or varieties, of this flower, than 
the limits of our Work will admit, may confult Miller s Gard* 
Dill, or the Florifts Catalogues . 
