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Golden Dragon, very large, color dark golden yellow, 

 broad heavy petals ; Jupiter, brilliant reddish crimson ; 

 Jas. Salter, clear light yellow, beautifully incurved, as 

 the flower opens ; Lord Byron, dark rich crimson, 

 shaded old gold ; Lady Slade, delicate purple pink, 

 beautifully incurved ; Mrs. C. L. .Allen, carmine, yellow 

 centre ; Moonlight, immense size, beautiful lemon 

 white ; Mrs. C. H. Wheeler, vermillion and old gold ; 

 Maid of Athens, very large, pure snow white ; Talford 

 Salter, dwarf compact grower, color rich crimson, 

 streaked golden bronze ; Yellow Eagle, very large, dark 

 golden yellow, ribbon-like petals ; Thorpe Jr., rich yel- 

 low, Anemone-formed center ; one of the best. 



CARNATIONS. 



The cultivation of the Carnation is very simple. It is 

 rooted from cuttings at any time from October to April, 

 and as the plant is almost hardy, it may be planted out 

 with safety in the open ground in early spring, as soon as 

 cabbage, lettuce, or any other plant of that nature. 

 Many, for want of this knowledge, keep Carnations, in 

 the greenhouse or pits until the time for setting out 

 tender plants in May, thereby not only having the use- 

 less trouble of taking care of them, but depriving them 

 of six weeks of a season well adapted to their growth. 



They are best planted out in beds of six rows, nine 

 inches apart, and the same distance between the plants, 

 with eighteen inch alleys between the beds. The Carna- 

 tion is very impatient of a wet soil, and care should be 

 taken that the land be dry naturally, or it must be 

 drained. As the Carnations grow they throw up flower 

 shoots, which must be cut off all through the se^^on, 

 until about the 1st of September. If the plants are 

 wanted for winter flowering, this pinching back of the 

 flower shoots induces a dwarf and stocky growth, which 

 is very desirable in the Carnation. If they are grown in 



