56 THE CARNATION. 



COMPOST FOR FLOWERS THAT ARE APT TO 

 SPORT IN COLOUR. 



As, however, it is always best and safest to be on 

 the right side, and to adopt a system of caution in 

 all matters where there is a degree of danger and 

 risk to encounter, I beg to recommend a plan, which 

 prudence suggests, and which I mean in future to 

 adopt myself, with respect to a few sorts of the 

 two classes of Scarlet and Crimson Bizarres, which, 

 from their high colouring, I have found to sport 

 more than others ; that is, to lower the compost. 



I here subjoin the names of a few flowers, be- 

 cause they rank among the finest and best we have, 



viz. : 



Humphrey's Duke of Clarence, 

 James's Lord Craven, 

 Hoyle's General Washington, 

 Weltje's Sir Edward Pellew, 

 Sharpe's Defiance, 

 Plummer's Lord Manners, 

 Gabell's Hero, 



