126 Select Carnations, Picotces, and Pinks. 
Potting off the Cuttings. 
Rooted cuttings should be potted with great care, 
and certainly not more than jin. deeper than they 
were before. A moderate amount of watering in 
the early stages will suffice. When too deeply 
inserted in badly drained or overwatered soil, the 
young plants are hable to rot off at the neck. When 
the roots show well through the surface of the soil 
the plants should be repotted to prevent them 
becoming potbound. The same compost may be 
used as for tree Carnations. If the plants are in- 
tended to be grown in pots throughout the season 
they should be dealt with in the same way as tree 
Carnations. This also applies to plantations in the 
open ground. 
Stopping or Cutting Back. 
Whether in pots or planted out the young plants 
should be gone over once a week, and those shoots 
that are taking the lead should be cut back to in- 
duce a bushy habit of growth and secure a succes- 
sion of bloom in winter. In the case of early 
varieties, hike Mrs. T. W. lawson, Enchantress, 
Pipers. New York, Alpine Glow, and Harry 
Fenn, this stopping may be continued to the end of 
August. Pinching and stopping late varieties like 
Flamingo and POspetLy. should be discontinued 
after the middle of July, and in some cases even: 
earlier, more especially if the season is cold, dull 
and wet. The latest period at which the plants in 
pots or the open ground may be cut back, thus 
hinges largely upon the variety and the successful 
cultivator will not fail to ascertain the peculiarities 
of every one under his charge and treat them ac- 
cordingly. 
Disbudding. 
When flowers of the largest size are desired the 
lateral buds of each cluster must be removed at the 
earliest possible period, that it can be done with- 
out injuring the stem or the terminal bud. One 
bloom only should be left upon each flowering shoot 
the terminal one. Naturally late flowering 
varieties may be induced to advance more rapidly 
by the timely removal of the supernumerary buds. 
This operation is not so drastic as in the case of 
show Carnations and _ Picotees, because the 
American varieties produce many flowering shoots 
on a plant. 
