io CARNATIONS AND PINKS 



So, then, if the Carnation is to last long in the 

 garden you love, plant it on banks with plenty of 

 big stones about to screen the collars of the plants 

 from moisture and cold, and rendering the tempera- 

 ture equable. Let the aspect be east or west rather 

 than south, and let the wind blow freely over it, for 

 no plant enjoys wind more than the Carnation. Most 

 gardens have a wind-blown corner. Why not plant 

 the Carnations there ? When you can, let the flowers 

 and foliage hang down naturally, and in the second 

 summer a tangled mass of flower and foliage will 

 result quite unlike the conventional Carnation bed, 

 and infinitely more enduring. 



The so-called Tree Carnation is the most useful for 

 autumn flower beds, as the handsome but more formal 

 and summer-flowering florists' Carnation does not con- 

 tinue more than a month or six weeks in flower, and, 

 moreover, does not strike so readily from cuttings as 

 the tree varieties do. 



By the sea and on sloping banks the spicy Cloves 

 endure for years, and need only an occasional layer- 

 ing, so where there is the opportunity of making a 

 dry wall with plenty of earth behind, moist and yet 

 well drained, there is the place for a long-lived display 

 of Carnations, which will give the amateur several 

 years of pleasure before it needs thorough renewal 

 or overhauling. 



No one regrets more than I do the impossibility 

 of the culture of Malmaison Carnations in the open 

 garden. So fragrant, so beautiful, so large and hand- 

 some, it seems quite a mistake that they will not exist 



