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'' If any objection be started that the quantity of 

 dung is too great in proportion to that of the loam, 

 I answer, that such an objection might be well 

 founded, if the compost were to be used immedi- 

 ately on its being mixed together ; but, as it has to 

 lie six months before it is used, I am decidedly of 

 opinion that the quantity is not more than is neces- 

 sary, in order to ensure a luxuriant growth and a 

 generous bloom." 



Mr. Hogg lowers the compost for the yellow Pi- 

 cotees and such flowers as are apt to sport in colour, 

 as Humphrey's Duke of Clarence, Plummer's Lord 

 Manners, &c. : for these he recommends three 

 barrows of sound staple loam, two ditto of old 

 rotten cow-dung, one ditto horse-dung, a half ditto 

 sand, a half ditto lime rubbish, or old plaster, to be 

 well prepared, and incorporated as before. 



Mr. James Justice, a celebrated Scotch florist of 

 the middle of the last century, observes, that Car- 

 nations must never be planted in earth where Hya- 

 cinths have grown, those flowers, from certain 

 experience, being a sure poison to the Carnation, 

 and vice versa. 



The Carnation does not readily ripen its seed in 

 this country, owing to the late time of its flowering, 

 which is overtaken by the moist and cold months 

 before it has time to come to maturity. In the 

 summer of 1818, however, from the warmth of that 



