120 REMARKS ON PLANTING CARNATIONS, PANSIES, &C. 



ARTICLE III. 



REMARKS ON PLANTING CARNATIONS, PAN SIES, &c. 



BY C. S., A SECOND GAKDENER. 



To justify the remarks of 'your " Correspondent," Mr. CaryTyso, in- 

 serted at page 50, in the March number, 1840, I feel constrained to 

 say his advice is excellent, where he remarks on the erroneous prac- 

 tice of planting the above named kinds of flowers in balls of stiff soil. 

 It is quite customary, when taking up layers of Carnations, &c, from 

 the parent stools, to trowel them up with as much soil as possible, and 

 kneading the soil with the hand, thus forming a compact ball, in which 

 state they are frequently planted. The result has been, the plants 

 never made any proficiency in growth, consequently they have turned 

 an unsightly colour, and many of them have dwindled away. Never 

 having found out the exact reason until reading "Mr. C. Tyso's" 

 remarks, it then struck me very forcibly that he had hit upon the very 

 subject. 



• Perhaps these few observations may save some the trouble of sacri- 

 ficing one-half of their plants in order to prove the veracity of his 

 statement. 



ARTICLE IV. 



REMARKS ON THE THREE RIVAL YELLOW DAHLIAS, viz. 

 DEFIANCE, ARGO, AND HENRIETTA. 



BV MR. WILLIAM YVOODMANSEY, IIARPHAM, DR1FVIEI.D, YORKSHIRE. 



We have often heard of the Tulipomania of Holland and France ; and 

 it has justly moved our commiseration to hear of men so infatuated. 

 What, therefore, must, we think, of the paper war, which for the 

 last two or three months has agitated the floral community of Eng- 

 land in reference to the Dahlia. A certain person raises a Dahlia, 

 and he and his friends extol it to the clouds. Another fancies he 

 has raised one as good, if not better, and he takes the best means in 

 his power to give it publicity. Then comes forward a third person 

 with another, which he supposes is equal, if not superior, to either of 

 the others ; and thus among the admirers of the three Rivals, 

 there is such a striving for 7naslery as almost outdoes the Tulipo- 

 mania itself. 



