

plant the following season. This was also raised from 

 and I doubt not but there are plenty of exhibitors and others who 

 remember seeing that splendid plant at our great metropolitan exhi- 

 bitions for several successive years in the highest perfection. 



plant I always considered the second best of the sort I ever saw, as 

 I certainly mu-- _ Irs, Lawrence of Ealing Park the credit for 



producing the very best plant ; but this was some years after, — the 

 specimen I am now alludinz to had disappeared. In those : 

 exhibitor who was desirous of becoming the possess i Enc a 



plant did not consider himself safe except he could procure a plant 

 that had been grafted upon Decussata. A: :. .: 

 principal nurserymen imported plants in great numbers from the con- 

 tinent. These were all grafted ; but what was the res_. : r two 

 the greater part of them were dead ; and most of them died 

 apparently in the finest health, without the least warning, being fine 

 and healthv in the mor ning and dead at night. This has established 

 firmly upon my mind that grafting does not pro! : ■ fc . as I can 

 bear witness to plants livins; and keeping longer in perfection on their 

 own roots than those that had been grafted. 



When the season arrives for housing greenhouse plants, place your 

 Pimeleas in a light airv situation in your greenhouse, and water them 

 mod-. rjusrh the winter. In spring you m:. -Pply 



some stimulant to them in the shape of weak manure- yared 



from cow-dunz, and diluted with clean water. Wnen?.;; 

 be given them once every fortnight ; it will add to their strength and 

 vigour amazinglv, and cause them to throw forth their blooms much 

 stronger and of better colour. When the plants have finished bloom- 

 ing;, cut them back nearly close to where they made their blooming 

 wood the summer previous, and place them in their growing pit, 

 treating" them preciselv the same way as already recommended, 

 will soon break freely all over, which will be the most successful time 

 to give them another shift into larger pots. 



The following are the finest kinds in cultivation, viz. Decussata, 

 Hendersonii, Spectabilis, Rosea, Hispida, Macrocephala, Linifolia, 

 Mirabilis, Xeipergiana, VerscharFeltii. 



Camden Xursery, Cambencell . W. Ba?.> 



ON RAISING CARNATIONS FROM SEED. 



BY AN AMATEUR. 



New varieties of the Carnation and Picotee can only be obtained 

 from seed ; and as I happen to have leisure, without any decided in- 

 clination to laziness, the cultivation of these beautiful flowers has tor 

 several years formed a portion of my pursuit, and raising them from 

 seed a favourite amusement. For the advantage of those of a similar 

 taste, with perhaps less experience than myself, I will now narrate 

 my practice. 



