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season, a considerable portion of seed was ripened. 

 Tlic seed is generally procured from Vienna, and dif- 

 ferent towns in Switzerland ; and when put in phials, 

 and well corked, will keep good for several years. 



The seed should be sown about the middle of 

 May, in pots filled with the compost, on which the 

 seeds should be scattered, and then a liglit mould 

 sifted over them, just sufficient to cover them ; the 

 pots should then be placed in an airy part of the 

 garden, and kept shaded from the heat of the sun, 

 and moderately moist, but never very wet. As 

 soon as the young plants appear with six leaves, 

 and become about three inches high, they should 

 be planted out on a bed of good rich garden mould, 

 at about ten or twelve inches distance, and be de- 

 fended from excess of rain and severe frosts, by 

 mats on hoops, placed over the bed in the usual 

 manner: they Avill, in general, blow the following 

 summer, but not more than one plant out of a 

 hundred seedlings may be expected to produce 

 flowers of a fine quality. Hogg says, if a florist 

 raises six new Carnations in his lifetime, he may be 

 considered fortunate. 



When increased by layers, the time for perform- 

 ing this operation is when the plants are in full 

 bloom. The plant should be placed in the sun, so 

 that it may become dry and pliable before the layers 

 are bent down, as when they are too full of moisture 



