180 Select Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks. 
necessary but even harmful.. Even if it sinks to 
40° or 45° at night it will be quite sufficient. Plenty 
of air night and day is also essential, and the plants 
must be as near the glass as possible. Nothing 1s 
more essential to the foliage of this and other races 
of the Carnation under glass than light. 
Marguerite Carnations. 
Late batches in pots, intended for flowering 
under glass from November onwards should be care- 
fully attended to in the matter of staking, tying, 
watering and even disbudding if large flowers are 
desired. This latter operation can easily be over- 
done and the less of it the better. Fumigation may 
be resorted to should there be any sign of green fiy 
or thrips; and if accomplished before the expansion 
of the buds so much the better. Sometimes they 
are kept in frames at this period of the year, but if 
the house is ready for their reception they may be 
placed in their flowering quarters at once where 
they will be directly under the eye, and more con- 
veniently attended to. 
American Carnations. 
Many of the early varieties should now be in full 
bloom and the grower reaping the reward of all his 
previous labour and trouble in connection with them. 
Every possible advantage in the matter of light, air, . 
and attention should be afforded them as in the case 
of tree Carnations in a similar stage of their career. 
Where large blooms are desired (and most growers 
have a hankering after large flowers in this race), 
thinning of the buds should be practised as soon as 
they can be removed without injury to those that 
remain, and to the stems. As the days shorten less 
and less water will be required. 
NOVEMBER. 
Border Carnations. 
If planted in good time and sufficiently established 
in firm ground before the advent of frost there should 
be little danger of the plants being raised out of the 
ground; but should tnis happen at any time during 
winter, they should be firmly pressed down again 
with the fingers. The labels are more likely to be 
thrown out of the grouna than the plants, and to 
guard against displacement and mixing they should 
be examined after frost and pushed home again. 
