74 MARCH. 



CARNATIONS. 



Apply fresh earth to the Carnations which were 

 planted out the preceding autumn, and remove from 

 them all decayed leaves. Indeed, this care should 

 now be taken with all plants in boxes or pots, adding 

 fresh earth, (without going so deep as to disturb or 

 injure the roots,) for this tends greatly to assist the 

 flowering. 



The fine stage Carnation layers that you have pre- 

 served under frames during the winter, should now 

 be removed into flowering pots, (the compost to be 

 as before directed,) about nine or ten inches diam- 

 eter, a pair in each, as is generally practised by flo- 

 rists, to secure fine flowers, and let the bottom be 

 well drained by means of broken tiles, pots, or oyster 

 shells ; place them in a sheltered situation until they 

 become established, from which time, until the sea- 

 son of flowering, they should be in an airy and open 

 situation, lest they be weakly and drawn. 



CAMPANULAS. 



These are a numerous family, and many of them 

 are highly ornamental ; for example, the Speciosa 

 and Glomerate species ; but the Campanula pyra- 

 midalis demands an especial notice. 



Of this there are two varieties, the blue and white, 

 both best propagated by seed, but generally by roots, 

 which when divided into cuttings of three or four 

 inches, and planted in pots, with the head raised 

 above the surface, readily become plants, which, 

 when of sufficient strength, should be shifted sue- 



