INDEX 



BORDER Carnations 

 Bizarres, 1 6 

 cross-fertilisation, 31 

 cultivation of, 21 

 exhibiting the flowers, 29 

 Flakes, 16 



Picotee, white-ground, 19 

 Picotee, yellow-ground, 20 

 plants in pots, 22 

 preparation of the beds, 21 

 propagation from layers, 21 

 select list of varieties, 35 

 types of, 14 

 wireworms, 22 



CALENDAR of garden operations, 



100 

 Carnation, the wild, I, 14 



HISTORICAL Notes 

 Benary, Ernest, 9 

 Botanical Magazine, 4, 5 

 Bower, Thomas, 7, 20 

 Dodwell, E. S., 7 

 Empress Josephine's collection, 8 

 Fellows, Rev. Charles, 7 

 first recorded Carnation in Eng- 

 land, 8 



Gerard's Herbal, 2 

 Hill's Eden, 4 



Hogg's book on the Carnation, 7 

 Kit's art of dressing, 8 

 Lord of Todmorden, 7 



Historical Notes (continued) 



Marguerite Carnation, history and 

 cultivation of, 39 



Norman of Woolwich, 7, 20 



Nunn, Christopher, and the art of 

 dressing, 7 



Parkinson, 2 



Perpetual-flowering Carnation, origin 

 of, 10 



Pink, introduction of, into Eng- 

 land, 41 



Rea's Flora, 3 



Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, 2 



Smith, Martin Ridley, 9 



Smith, Richard, 8 



Simonite, Ben, 9, 20 



Souvenir de la Malmaison, origin of, 



13 



Turner, Charles, 9 

 Turner's Herbal, 2 



MALMAISON, Souvenir de la, 47 

 feeding the plants, 53 

 houses for, 48 

 pests and diseases, 54 

 potting the plants, 49 

 propagation of, 48 

 selection of varieties, 56 

 shading, 55 

 temperatures, 55 

 ventilation, 53 

 watering, 52 



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