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glass over them ; in this state they may be removed to the propagating 
house, where the temperature should be 70°: they should be shaded 
from the sun, which can be done by placing a sheet of coarse paper 
over the glasses. As soon as the cuttings are rooted, which may be 
known by their appearance of growth, they must be potted off, but care 
must be taken not to injure the roots ; then they must be shaded again 
for a week or ten days until they make fresh roots; then they must be 
gradually hardened and placed in the greenhouse with the old plants. 
— Gardeners’ Journal. 
OBTAINING LARGE BLOOMS OF CARNATIONS AND 
PICOTEES. 
A very striking improvement has been effected in an increased size of 
the flowers of Carnations and Picotees which have been exhibited at 
the recent shows in and around London, and having visited several of 
the gardens from whence the show flowers had been sent, I found on 
inquiry that a much better knowledge of the natural character and ca- 
pability of each particular kind of plant was now being obtained by 
cultivators in general, and especial attention paid to a judicious thinning 
of the buds, proportioning the quantity to the ascertained degree of its 
natural capabilities. A list of a number of varieties, and what it is 
considered by Mr. Dickson they should bring to perfection, is given in 
the Magazine of Gardening. 
Show Carnations that will carry only one blooming pod on a stem: 
—Martin’s Splendid, Eason’s Admiral Curzon, Eliott’s Duke of 
Sutherland, Lightbody’s Mr. Groom, Fletcher’s Duke of Devonshire, 
Rainsforth’s Game Boy, Colent’s Brutus, Ely’s Lord Milton, Gregory’s 
King Alfred, Jacques’ Georgiana, Puxley’s Queen Victoria, Ely’s 
Mongo and Prince de Nassau, Willmer’s Mayo, Nix’s Lady Chetwynd, 
Chadwick’s Brilliant, Wilson’s William 1V., Wigg’s Earl of Leicester, 
Simpson’s Queen Victoria, Brown’s Bishop of Gloucester, Ely’s Lady 
Ely, Barringer’s Apollo, Tomlyn’s Brisius, Wilson’s Haniel, Wood’s 
Rosabella, Fletcher’s Duchess of Devonshire. 
Show Carnations that will carry two blooms on a stem for exhibition : 
—Hepworth’s Hamlet, Smith’s Duke of Wellington, Twitchet’s Don 
John, Willmer’s Conquering Hero, Sharpe’s Defiance, Lodge’s True 
Briton, Hale’s Prince Albert, Cartwright’s Rainbow, Ely’s Duke of 
Bedford, Ely’s Mrs. Brane, Ely’s Hugo Meynell, Halfacre’s Rainbow, 
Holmes’ Count Pauline, Mansley’s Robert Burns, Wood’s William 1V., 
Puxley’s Solander, Jacques’ Iris, Hughes’ Napoleon, Brooks’s Eliza, 
Brabbin’s Squire Meynell, Ely’s John Wright, Mansley’s Beauty of 
Woodhouse, Taylor’s Lord Byron, Pollard’s First Rate, Bucknall’s 
Ulysses, Ely’s King of Scarlets, Puxley’s Rising Sun, Willmer’s Hero 
of Middlesex, Smith’s Marquis of Chandos, Copeland’s Superb, Chad- 
wick’s Flora, Ely’s Lady Gardener and Lovely Ann, Greasley’s Village 
Maid, Lowe’s Marchioness of Westminster. 
Show Carnations that will carry three blooms on a stem for ex- 
hibition :—Colent’s Julia, Davidson’s Vanqueur, Barnard’s Duke of 
Roxburgh, Puxley’s Prince Albert, Young’s Earl Grey, Hale’s Lady 
