THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



OCTOBER 1st, 1833. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. — On the Culiivation of the Carnation. — 

 By T. G. S. 



May I be allowed to introdvice to the notice of your subscribers 

 a few remarks on the cultivation of the Carnation, which, if these 

 prove satisfactory, I intend to send them several hints on the 

 management of various Stage or Florist's Flowers. 



The following compost is recommended to be used for such 

 Carnations as are grown in or near large towns — (in country 

 places, where the air is more pure, experience has pointed out the 

 propriety of using less dung and more loam, the sand as before :) — 

 One -half rotten horse dung, one year old — one-third fresh sound 

 loamy earth, and one-sixth coarse sea or river sand. These in- 

 gredients are to be mixed together in Autumn, laid in a heap 

 about two feet thick, in an open exposure, and turned three or 

 four times during winter. The operation of jjotting should com- 

 mence about the middle of March, if the weather is not extremely 

 unfavourable ; but it should not, on any account, be defened later 

 tlian the end of that month. The pot in the first place should 

 have an oyster shell, with its hollow side downwards, placed over 

 the hole in the centre of the bottom ; the pot must then be half 

 filled with compost ; the compost to be higlRr at the sides than in 

 the centre of the pot, and one plant placed in each, having pre- 

 viously rubbed about half an inch ofi' the surface of the old mould 



