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once a week some liquid manure ; and you will not be 

 disappointed as regards the results. 



The ordinary way and time for striking pipings, or 

 making layers, of the Carnation and Pink will not do 

 for forcing plants the same season, as two years are re- 

 quired to make plants like those I now describe ; and 

 then such plants must not be allowed to flower, for they 

 will not be such good ones as those struck and pushed 

 on as these are. 



There are many sorts of Pinks and Carnations that 

 may be used for forcing, but the following seem to be 

 the best of the Pinks the old Anne Boleyn, Coccinea, 

 Lady Blanche, Lord Lyons, Paddington, Mrs. Pettifeer, 

 and a variety besides ; and of the Carnations Miss 

 JollifFe, La Zouave, Covent Garden Scarlet, Valiant, 

 White Nun, Rosy Morn, Mercury, &c. Almost any free- 

 flowering Pink and Carnation may be forced ; but those 

 that are shy of flower, and that grow long and thin in 

 the grass, are not fit for this purpose ; but any of the 

 kind that opens freely, and without bursting the 

 pod, may be used for forcing. Mr. Charles Turner 

 of Slough is the most likely man to get a good selec- 

 tion from, for this purpose. Get the stocks as early 

 as they can be had, which I think I have said is in 

 September. 



The house I recommend is the sixty feet span; eigh- 

 teen feet wide, twelve feet high at the ridge, and five 

 feet high in front, as the illustration shows, heated 

 with four-inch pipe, and one of those inexpensive saddle 

 boilers before referred to. The whole cost of such a 

 house may be estimated at 42L 18s., as follows (with- 

 out the heating and the staging, for which 35L more 

 must be added) : 



