THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MARCH 1st, 1834. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. — On the Culture of the Carnation and 

 Picotee. By Innovator. 



I herewith send for insertion in your Cabinet, what I have found 

 (after numerous experiments) to be the best method of growing 

 those beautiful flowers, the Carnation and Picotee. 



I shall begin with the first purchase. This ought to be made 

 the first week in October ; and in doing this, be cautious where 

 you lay out your money, as I am certain there are no other articles 

 in which so much roguery and deception are practiced as in Car- 

 nations and Picotees ; you had better pay a little more to a florist 

 of standing character than risk being cheated by the allurements 

 of cheapness. I would also recommend your attending the re- 

 moval of the layers from the parent plant where possible, and go 

 home with them directly, and pot them in 48-sizcd pots, in the fol- 

 lowing compost : — One barrowful each of rather sandy maiden loam 

 and thoroughly decayed hot-bed dung, with a peck each of coarse 

 ■and and leaf mould, all well mixed together and passed through 

 a fine sieve ; put in the bottom of each pot a quantity of potsherds, 

 then (ill to within two inches or so with the compost, and upon 

 this place the plants, and place the compost lightly round them tip 

 to the first pair of haves ; strike the pot once upon the potting board, 

 and give them water. When ihey arc become dry, place a hand- 

 light firmly over them for a week or ten days, by which time they 

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