40 PICTORIAL PRACTICAL CARNATION GROWING. 
averted, and cover about 4 inch deep. The references to the illus- 
trations give details. 
When the young plants begin to grow keep them close to the 
glass, give them abundance of air, and avoid overwatering. This 
will result in sturdy plants. If crowded together a long way from 
the glass they will become drawn and weakly. If kept very wet 
blackleg may attack them. 
The seedlings should be pricked off directly they touch each 
other, and they may either go 14 inches apart into other boxes, or 
singly into small pots, or be put out in a piece of well prepared, 
finely pulverised soil in the open ground. 
Chapter 1V.—Propaqation by Pipinas or 
Cuttinas. 
THERE are people who hesitate to embark on the special culture of 
Carnations for no other reason than that, in looking at lists, they see 
that the price of novelties is high. F ; 
It must be at once admitted that if the beginner fills up all his 
space with the very latest varieties he will have a rather heavy bill 
to foot. But who need do this? There are plenty of Carnations of 
great beauty that may be purchased very cheaply ; in fact, they cost 
no more than a Chrysanthemum or a Dahlia. One or two novelties 
added to the collection will impart interest and distinction, and if 
RAISING FROM SEED. FIG. 17 (NEXT PAGE).—PRICKING 
OFF OUTDOORS. 
W, pricking off bed in section: g, ordinary soil, broken up a few inches 
deep and made fine and even on the surface; i, prepared compost, placed 
on the natural soil about 2} inches deep and made moderately firm ; 
i, seedling properly inserted. 
X, arrangement of seedlings in pricking off bed in squares, as indicated by 
the dotted lines: j, alley; &, bed; /, plants. 
Y, seedlings pricked off into a bed outdoors and arranged in equilateral 
triangle order, thus giving them full advantage of space: m, alley; 
n, bed; 0, plants. ; 
Z, plants pricked off, 3 inches apart, the object being to allow them to remain 
where pricked off until late summer or early autumn: », alley, about 1 
foot wide; g, bed, not more than 4 feet wide; 7, seedlings planted 
equilaterally 3 inches apart. 
