458 THE PLEASURE, OR [JULY. 



Continue to propagate your choice carnations and pinks, by layers 

 and pipings, as directed in page 413 ; for the performance of which, 

 the early part of this month is a very principal time. Give the 

 necessary shade and water to the plants now in flower, and see that 

 those layers which were laid last month are kept sufficiently moist, 

 to promote their free rooting. 



When the layers are properly rooted, which will be the case with 

 most sorts in a month after laying, provided due care be taken to 

 keep them regularly moist, and to shade them from the heat of the 

 meridian sun ; they are then to be taken off from the old plant, 

 with about half an inch of the stalk which connects them to it, and 

 be immediately planted in small pots, one, two, three or four in 

 each. The pots should be filled with the compost recommended in 

 page 287, previously adding thereto, a little more loam and coarse 

 sand, and when the plants are neatly planted therein, the pots 

 should be buried to their rims in a convenient airy place, and arches 

 of hoops placed over the bed, on which, to lay mats to shade the 

 plants from the sun, till well rooted and growing freely ; and these 

 mats are to be afterwards laid on occasionally as necessity may re- 

 quire, to protect the plants from two powerful sunshine or heavy 

 torrents of rain, which are both injurious to them. 



Here they are to remain till November, when they must be re- 

 moved into their winter repository, as then directed ; during this 

 time, they must have a sufficiency of water as often as it may ap- 

 pear necessary, to keep them in a constant growing state and good 

 health. 



The layers of the common kinds of carnations, should when tak- 

 en off, be planted in beds of rich earth, in rows about six inches 

 asunder ; where they are to be watered and shaded until well taken 

 with the ground and growing. They may remain in these beds 

 till September, October, or March, and are then to betaken up with 

 balls of earth, and planted where intended to flower. 



Pinks. 



The most valuable kinds of pinks should be treated in every re- 

 spect as directed for carnations. 



Sensitive Plant. 



Thfe Sensitive plants which have been raised in hot -beds, may 

 about the first of this month, if not done in June, be brought out 

 into the open air, and placed in a very warm situation, for they de- 

 light in much heat ; but some ought to be kept constantly under 

 glasses, for when fully exposed to the weather, they lose much of 

 their sensibility. 



The species I particularly allude to, is the Mimosa fmdtca, or 

 humble and sensitive plant, which is thus characterized in the 

 flowing poetry of DARWIN. 



Weak with nice sense the chaste Mimosa stands, 

 From each rude touch withdraws her tender hands; 



