ON PRESERVING CARNATIONS AND AURICULAS. 17 



ARTICLE VIII. 



ON PRESERVING CARNATIONS AND AURICULAS IN DAMP 



SITUATIONS. 



BY CIVES. 



Having adopted with success numerous plans suggested by the cor- 

 respondents of your Floricultural Cabinet, I am induced to send 

 for your approval a very simple one of my own, by means of which, 

 though living in a very damp winter situation in a town, I am now 

 able to keep through the winter in a flourishing state both carnation 

 and auriculas, with the loss (I may say) of scarcely a plant, though 

 before the adoption of it I invariably lost at least one third of my 

 collection; and as many readers of the Cabinet may be similarly 

 situated, it would give me great pleasure to be the means of helping 

 to preserve these beautiful flowers. 



I have four flat upright pieces of metal, (I prefer brass, from not 

 being liable to corrode as iron,) two at each end of the winter frames 

 these have a knee at the bottom corresponding with the slope of th 

 top of the frames, where the glass light runs, and into which th 

 knees are let, and screwed down. These brass uprights are six 

 inches long, three-quarters of an inch wide, and about one-eighth 

 thick, having three holes in each at equal distances, to admit brass 

 pegs, made to fit them. In the sides of the glass lights opposite the 

 brass uprights are.4ct in small plates of brass, with holes of the same 

 size to admit the ends of the pegs about half an inch, so that by 

 raising up the lights to any of these holes, and inserting the pegs 

 through the uprights into the holes in the glass lights, I can at 

 pleasure admit air either at both sides of the frames or one, either 

 much or little, regulated by the height of the different holes. The 

 frames are on legs from twelve to fifteen inches high, and have bars 

 of wood in steps for the pots to stand upon. I am thus able to have 

 a constant circulation of air in the wettest weather, by raising and 

 pegging the contrary sides of the frames to that on which the rain 

 comes, if attended with wind; if not, both sides may be kept raised. 

 If I put the pegs through the holes at the top of the frames, I let 

 the glass lights rest on those at the bottom ; and when I let down the 

 lights at night, I put in one or two pegs in the lowest holes over the 

 glass lights, which will prevent any wind from moving them, and 

 which cannot happen when the lights arc raised and pegged in the 

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