2 ON RAISING CARNATIONS AND PINKS FROM SEED. 



it yields him a fresh stock of single flowers, to go on with. Ftr 

 the information of your readers, and Mr. Pearce in particular, if 

 lie be really a raiser of Carnations, I will detail my mode of pro- 

 ceeding. I select such flowers as are perfectly double, and I know 

 of none better than the following: — Roi de Capuchins, s. b. ; 

 Wood's William the Fourth, c. b. ; Addenbroke's Lydia, s. f. ; 

 Lancashire Lass, r. f. ; Turner's Princess Charlotte, p. f. In 

 Picotees — Hufton's Will Slukely, r. p. ; Annesley's Achilles, r. p.; 

 Hufton's Miss Willoughby, p.p.; and Jeeve's Moonraker, p.p. 

 That such flowers as these may produce seed, it will be necessary 

 to let every bud remain to bloom. When they are fully expanded, 

 and the pistils assume a glittering icy appearance, take any one 

 half-expanded bloom, and tear it open, when will be seen the apices, 

 or pods, containing the pollen, or dust : take one of these, and, 

 if not already burst, open it, and draw it along the pistils, till you 

 see some of the powder adhering to them. If this has been pro- 

 perly done, the bloom will close in two or three hours ; and if no 

 alteration takes place, repeat it till it does. In two or three days 

 after impregnation has taken place, cut off all the other buds, and 

 remove the plant to a situation where it will get plenty of sun ; 

 keep it well supplied with water, and protect the capsule from rain, 

 by placing a square piece of thin board upon the stick, just above 

 it; gather the seed when ripe, and keep it in the pod in a well- 

 corked vial. It will be also necessary to protect the pod from 

 earwigs, which is best done by winding a little fresh sheep's wool 

 lound the stick and stem ; they will not attempt to pass over it, as 

 it entangles them. 



These directions apply equally as well to Pinks, with the excep- 

 tion that the bloom from which the pollen is to be taken must be 

 opened before it begins to expand, or the apices will all be burst, 

 and the pollen gone. 



Trusting these practical remarks will prove of service, I beg to 

 subscribe myself, Innovator. 



P.8. 1 have used the terms pistils and apices, in preference to 

 others, as the female parts that should be impregnated in Carna- 

 tions, &c. ar<- commonly, but very improperly, called "the horns." 



