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roots. In about a month or six weeks, if the soil has been 

 kept moderately moist ^ the layers may be severed from 

 the parent plant and established for themselves ; or they 

 may remain where they are, if the stem to which they are 

 attached be carefully cut off. 



The Carnation requires a rich, generous, deep soil. A 

 compost of three parts of good, strong garden loam, 

 three parts hot-bed manure, two years old, three parts of 

 coarse river sand, two parts dry manure from a hen-house, 

 sifted, and two j)arts of soot fi'om a wood fire, has been 

 recommended for the Carnation. 



Clove Pink is more hardy tlian the Carnation, of 

 which it is the parent ; the petals are more fringed, and 

 the fragrance more powerful, resembling that of the 

 Clove. In France it is called the Clove Gilly-flower. 

 " Some suppose this latter name to have been corrupted 

 from July-fiower, July being its flowering time. Drayton 

 so names it." 



" The curious choice July flower. 

 Whose kinds iiight the Carnation, 

 For sweetness of most sovereign power 

 Shall help my wreath to fashion ; 

 Whose sundry colors of one kind, 

 First from one root derived, 

 Them in their several suits I'll bind, 

 My garland so.contrived." 



Perpetual Carnation Pink — Tree Carnation, or Win- 

 ter-flowering. — The great improvement in this tribe 

 has added an invaluable feature to the section of winter- 

 blooming plants for the drawing-room, conservatory, or 

 green-house. The delicately rich and grateful odor, in 

 connection with the brilliant color and good outline of the 

 flowers now oflered, will secure for them a prominent 

 place in the forcing department, and, ere long, be regarded 

 as an indisj^ensable requisite in the portable drawing-room 

 flower vase. 



