ON RAISING CARNATIONS VROM SEED. 243 



Other subjects have been tried, but all have not been noted, nor 

 have the exact dates of several of the final results. As I remarked 

 before, I do not think that the old modes of propagation are to 

 be discarded or discontinued ; still, there is one great advantage 

 which attends the mode of extension by water-cuttings, in so far 

 as the minutest fibres are not injured by removal ; and provided 

 common care be used in placing the plant, at first, in very light 

 rich soil, generally with a little silver sand about its roots, there 

 will not be any shrinking or failure. In several species, particu- 

 larly those of shrubby Calceolarias, if struck in pots, unless the 

 whole ball be transferred, the plants dwindle, and frequently die. 

 I have never found any torpor, if the precaution be observed of 

 placing some of the tenderest species under a close striking-frame, 

 keeping them excluded from air lor a day or two. 



The cuttings should be in a tender, herbaceous state, not woody; 

 and I think that the method applies chiefly to tender, and even 

 succulent species. 



I do not address this paper to gardeners— to scientific experi- 

 menters : they are aware doubtless of all the circumstances re- 

 corded, and of many more ; but all are not " an fait " of every 

 particular ; and where scientific instruction is not conveyed, nor 

 indeed always called for, innocent and rational amusement is a 

 thing worthy of some attention. G. I. T. 



September 2d, 1834. 



ARTICLE II.— On Raising Carnal ions from Seed. By 

 J. W. C. 



Observing, in yote Cabinet for July last, that several of your 

 correspondents solicit some information on raising Carnations from 

 geed 4 , I am induced, .as u tolerably successful cultivator of that 

 delightful flower, to offer a few remarks. 



perience lias proved to me the error of sowing seed from self 

 colours, or those posse:-,>in- bad properties, as, by repeated trials, 

 I:,,,, | the only chance of obtaining superior flowers 



yoitr own seed, produced from those acknowledged to be 

 first-rate, Tl ■•!, und which I recommend, 



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