146 PICTORIAL PRACTICAL CARNATION GROWING. 
Pinks. 
Garden Varieties. Show Varieties. 
Anne Boleyn, rosy purple, Boiard. 
Ernest Ladhams, blush. Empress of India. 
Her Majesty, white. Harry Hooper. 
Mrs. Sinkins, white. James Thurstan. 
Mrs. Waite, white, rose centre. Mrs. Dark. 
Paddington, rose. Modesty. 
Chapter XIl—Qarquerite Carnations. 
THE Marguerite or Margaret Carnation came as a great boon to 
those amateurs who are unable to give the time necessary for special- 
isation. These folk would fain have in their greenhouses and gardens 
the best forms of the florists’ Carnation, grown up to the highest 
standard of excellence met with at the principal shows. But they 
have learned from painful experience that skilful, constant, and 
regular attention, as well as some amount of money, are required in 
order to gain this end. In particular were they disillusioned by the 
beautiful but fickle Malmaison. Repeated failures showed that it 
was not for them. 
The Marguerite Carnation has none of the fads of its queenly 
sister. It isa free and healthy grower, needs no special watchful- 
ness and care, and blooms profusely in a few months from the time 
of sowing the seed. In fact, it is just as amenable to annual treat- 
ment as the well-known Indian Pink. It resulted from a cross 
between the latter and a florists’ Carnation. The flowers come with 
a fair percentage of doubles in a good strain, are prettily fringed 
(the lover of American Carnations will not regard this as a defect, 
even if old-fashioned florists will), and are pleasantly scented. 
Seed may be purchased at prices varying from a penny toa 
shilling a packet. February is a good month to sow in the green- 
house. The seed may be sprinkled thinly in a pot, pan, or box, in a 
moist mixture of loam, leaf mould and sand, and covered witha 
square of glass shaded with brown paper until germination takes 
place. When the seedlings come through substitute white paper for 
brown, and admit air. Ina few days expose them to the full light. 
If the soil becomes dry it can be moistened without disturbing the 
plants by dipping the receptacle up to the brim in a tub of water. 
When the seedlings threaten to become crowded prick them off about 
