ioo CARNATIONS AND PINKS 



Quite the most recent of our introductions have, 

 in addition, purer colours. The variety Florence 

 would rival a Carnation in its exquisite form; Marion 

 has very large flowers on strong spikes as many as 

 a dozen branching buds are found on each growth ; 

 Mrs. Monland has a chaste, well-formed flower, clear 

 pink in colour, with chocolate centre, and five or six 

 flowers are often out on a single spike at one time; 

 and Ethel is a variety of graceful growth, the full 

 refined flowers being white, delicately marked with 

 pale purple, and showing no signs of splitting. A few 

 others are also in commerce, and we are selecting 

 and eliminating amongst many other seedlings of 

 several years' proving. We find that plants on stony 

 land enriched with decayed manure are more peren- 

 nial and the colours are brighter. Of course they 

 are at a disadvantage during excessive drought, and 

 as two acres are grown, we do not pretend to water 

 them, but they recover as soon as rain falls or the 

 cool nights begin, and flower more abundantly for 

 the rest they have taken. Layering as one does the 

 Carnation is the only safe way of increasing stock; 

 but of course they need not be lifted as Carnations 

 are for the sake of protection, as this is quite un- 

 necessary." E. T. C. 



CHOOSING GARDEN PINKS 



There is a great deal more to be done in the way of 

 raising useful garden Pinks. They hybridise so freely, 

 and come so well from seed, that it is a matter for 



