ON PROPAGATING CARNATIONS. 1*75 



ARTICLE V. 



ON PROPAGATING CARNATIONS, &c. 



BY MR. S. V. SCARNEJ.L, ST. OSYTH, ESSLX. 



As it is frequently the case that a weakly layer or piping of Carnation 

 is lost in consequence of its only sending up a flower stem and no 

 side shoots, and as the time is now approaching that every admirer 

 of that beautiful flower will gratefully receive any intelligence re- 

 specting its cultivation, I beg (with deference) to communicate a 

 plan that I have adopted with universal success ; it may not be 

 novel to many, although I have never heard of its being practised by 

 any one, till from reasoning and observation as to the result, I made 

 trial of it myself, and have this year two plants with four or five side 

 shoots, besides having the pleasure of the blossom last year ; whereas 

 if the flowering stem is cut down early it sends up another and dies ; 

 if left till the bloom fades, your plant is almost sure to perish, not- 

 withstanding the greatest care. 



In the month of July an incision is to be made as for layering, 

 except that it is to be commenced above one of the lower knots and 

 carried downwards ; the current of sap being thus divided, one half 

 nourishes the flowering stem— the other, finding a check, sends forth 

 a shoot, thus saving your plant. 



ARTICLE VI. 



REMARKS ON, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF, SOME SEEDLING 

 PELARGONIUMS. 



MY E. BLIGHT, ESQ., WYNDHAM PLACE, PLYMOUTH. 



In my last communication with you (inserted in the June number, 

 p. 134) on the subject of seedling Geraniums, I had reached as far 

 as No. 3, or Nairn's Gem of the west. It will now be my object to 

 continue information for the use of your Cabinet, and also that Mr. 

 Nairn, Florist, Lower Stoke, Devon, may be more fully known and 

 appreciated, both as a grower and raiser of that beautiful flower. I 

 shall send you enclosed specimens of six, regretting I cannot of the 

 whole, (as they are not all open,) but you shall have, as accurately as 

 I dm pre, the (rue description of all. I must repeat that I think 

 (uin the best Geranium yet raised, but you will be able to judge for 

 yourself. No. 4, or Nairn's Lord of the Manor, is a fine round 



