THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JANUARY 1st, 1835. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I — On the Impregnation and Raising of the 

 1 Carnation and Pink from Seed. By Innovator. 

 I should not have troubled your readers with the following 

 remarks, had not the Article by Mr. D. Pearce, on raising seed- 

 ling Carnations, (inserted in your October Number, Vol. II., p. 

 219 ) been greatlv calculated to mislead the inexperienced florist. 

 Persons accustomed to raise seedlings, never think of saving the 

 seed from single flowers. I should say that, from such seed, there 

 would not be a moderately good flower in ten thousand. The 

 only fault with at least two-thirds of our present varieties, is, that 

 they are too thin of petals, and will not form a good crown, which 

 is an indispensable property in the criteria of a fine Carnation 

 I ask what can look more meagre than these half-double flowers ? 

 Take, for instance, « Watcrhouse's Rising Sun," a flower possess- 

 ing every thing in form of petal and in colour ; but place it by the 

 side of some full-petalled flower, and you will turn from it, lament- 

 ing its deficiency. The same author also speaks of saving seed as 

 "a matter requiring no art." I believe his single flowers will 

 generally produce it, without the trouble of cross-impregnation; 

 and with such a florist as Mr. D. Pearce, (who asks what is 

 meant by a pin-eyed Polyanthus!!) I should imagine that the 

 seed is every thing, and the produce of but little moment, so that 



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