PINKS AND CARNATIONS. 117 
once a week some liquid manure; and you will not be 
disappointed as regards the results. 
The ordinary way and time for striking pipings, or 
making layers, of the Carnation and Pink will not do 
for forcing plants the same season, as two years are re- 
quired to make plants like those I now describe; and 
then such plants must not be allowed to flower, for they 
will not be such good ones as those struck and pushed 
on as these are. 
There are many sorts of Pinks and Carnations that 
may be used for forcing, but the following seem to be 
the best of the Pinks—the old Anne Boleyn, Coccinea, 
Lady Blanche, Lord Lyons, Paddington, Mrs. Pettifeer, 
and a variety besides; and of the Carnations—Miss 
Jolliffe, La Zouave, Covent Garden Scarlet, Valhant, 
White Nun, Rosy Morn, Mercury, &e. Almost any free- 
flowering Pink and Carnation may be forced; but those 
that are shy of flower, and that grow long and thin in 
the grass, are not fit for this purpose; but any of the 
kind that opens freely, and without bursting the 
pod, may be used for forcing. Mr. Charles Turner 
of Slough is the most likely man to get a good selec- 
tion from, for this purpose. Get the stocks as early 
as they can be had, which I think I have said is in 
September. 
The house I recommend is the sixty feet span; eigh- 
teen feet wide, twelve feet high at the ridge, and five 
feet high in front, as the illustration shows, heated 
with four-inch pipe, and one of those inexpensive saddle 
boilers before referred to. The whole cost of such a 
house may be estimated at 421. 18s., as follows (with- 
out the heating and the staging, for which 35/. more 
must be added) :-— 
