120 JUNE 



CARNATIONS. 



Tie up your Carnations, as they spindle ; dress the 

 surface of the pot with light rich compost, and lay 

 on it a thin coat of very rotten dung, which will re- 

 fresh the plant and keep it cool. 



AURICULAS AND POLYANTHUSES. 



Repot these ; increase them by offsets, and place 

 them in a shady eastern aspect ; water them in dry 

 weather. Take care, also, to keep them free from 

 weeds, grubs, and decayed leaves. 



ANEMONES AND RANUNCULUSES. 



Shade these plants, and water them occasionally 

 with liquid manure. Indeed, this is an admirable 

 cordial for most plants particularly in exhausted 

 beds or pots its basis being carbon (or charcoal) in 

 solution, which forms the substance of vegetables, 

 from which, as well as from all animal matter, it may- 

 be extracted, and modified in various ways. The 

 manure principally used in gardens for supplying 

 this carbon in solution, and as the most stimulant, is 

 the dung of pigeons and sheep ; but other manure, 

 administered in greater quantities, will answer as 

 well. Malt dust, and soot and wood ashes, are 

 powerful stimulants. Sheep's dung has been proved 

 highly nutritious to bulbs, but any extract of dung, 

 judiciously applied, will serve the desired purpose. 



