230 ON RAISING CARNATIONS FROM SEED. 



flowering as well as if it had not been done, and also prevents 

 their producing seed. This I have found is not the case, if the 

 plants are layered sufficiently early, the bloom will be stronger, 

 and without doubt they will give more seed in consequence of the 

 increased resources of the plant, each layer becoming rooted, and 

 enabled to support itself, as well as contribute to the strength of 

 the parent plant : they ought not, however, to be detached until 

 the seed is gathered, else a failure of your crop will be the con- 

 sequence. The seeds that have ripened in the early part of the 

 season may be sown as soon as gathered, in a sheltered part of 

 the garden, and the young plants placed out on a well manured 

 south border, where (with slight protection during the very severe 

 weather of winter) they will become strong blooming plants for 

 the ensuing summer, thus gaming a year, as by the usual culture 

 of the plants never show their flowers until the second year from 

 sowing. The late saved seed is to be sown, and the plants treat- 

 ed in the usual way. This process may seem a little troublesome, 

 but it is really not so ; and the gratification arising from the pro- 

 duction of very many beautiful flowers, will, I am sure, amply 

 repay the person who pursues it. 



ARTICLE VII. 

 ON PLANTING EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 



BY THE FOREMAN OF A LONDON NURSERY. 



The season generally taken advantage of for transplanting ever- 

 greens, are spring and autumn ; that is, about the month of May, 

 after the spring frosts are supposed to be over, or the month of 

 August, before the frosts set in. I have invariably found, that 

 such plants as were removed in April and May, had a very 

 great advantage over those transplanted during the preced- 

 ing autumn. The reasons for this circumstance are, that 

 such plants as are lifted in August cannot be supposed to have 

 their young wood so well ripened off as plants that remain un- 

 disturbed at that season of the year ; if the plants be checked by 

 being transplanted at that season of the year, when the young 

 wood is imperfectly ripened, generally in place of their pushing 

 away vigorously in spring, the young wood is apt to die back, the 

 leaves assume a sickly yellow appearance, and the whole plant 

 is rendered an eye-sore. The advantage of moist weather for re- 



