THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MAY 1st, 1840. 

 PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



ON THE CARNATION. 



BY Mil. JOHN FREDERICK WOOD, NURSERYMAN, COPPICE, NEAR NOTTINGHAM. 



Read be/ore the Beeston and Chilwell Horticultural Societies. 



Without wishing at all to depreciate other varieties of what are 

 termed florists' flowers, and of which I sincerely wish there were 

 more cultivators, and though I may have rather a prejudice in favour 

 of the Tulip, yet it must he allowed that the subject of this evening's 

 essay, " The Carnation," is a universal favourite, and from its more 

 speedy increase by means of seeds, pipings, and layers, it may truly 

 be designated everybody's flower ; and, in fact, rich and poor seem 

 to agree in this, whatever else they may differ in, that the Carnation 

 is worthy of their greatest care, and draws from both unequivocal 

 expressions and feelings of delight. 



There have been so many treatises written on its cultivation, and 

 rules laid down for propagation and management, that in attempting to 

 describe a system, I fear I may run some danger of being suspected 

 of plagiarism ; or perhaps, after having endeavoured to enlighten 

 my friends round about me, I may after all find that they even can 

 tell me what I am unacquainted with : at all events, I do not mean 

 to assume to myself any extraordinary ability, neither do I suppose 

 that I shall be considered an oracle ; but as our object is mutual in- 

 struction, perhaps the few observations brought forward this evening 



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