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During the summer they will require very care- 

 ful watering and tying, with syringing twice a day, 

 in favourable weather. The syringing will help to 

 keep them free from green-fly, which is a great 

 enemy to the Carnation. 



At the end of September they must be placed 

 in their winter quarters, which ought to be a 

 nice hght house, made perfectly clean — that is, 

 well washed both inside and out. They should be 

 fumigated directly they are put in it, and again just 

 before they open their buds, which will be about 

 the middle of October. 



The buds will require thinning if large flowers 

 are wanted, some of the varieties more than others. 

 I generally leave from thirty to forty buds on each 

 plant of the variety Miss Joliffe, which will open 

 good flowers ; but " Empress of Germany," " Juno," 

 "Sir H. Calcraft," "Baronne de Rothschild," and such 

 sorts, I disbud to two or three flowers on a stem. 

 The temperature should be 55"^ by day and 50° by 

 night, with a little air front and top at all 

 times. Carnations ought never to be kept close ; 

 no matter what the weather may be, they ought 

 always to have a circulation of air. 



Last year I succeeded in flowering the pink and 

 blush Malmaisons during the winter, and I have a 

 beautifid lot in flower now, the 12th January. I 

 have been cutting since October, and shall continue 

 to do so until the end of July. 



