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For summer there cannot very well be anything 

 better than Carnations. Vigorous sorts should be 

 chosen, such as Mrs. Eric Hambro, Hildegarde and Tro- 

 jan, whites ; St. Patrick, Mrs. Audrey Campbell and 

 Lord Roberts, yellows ; Adeline, Mrs. Robert Berkeley, 

 Mrs. Robert Gordon and Lady Hermione, pinks ; Cardinal, 

 Brigadier and Firebrand, scarlets ; Robert Bruce and 

 Mrs. G. A. Reynolds, apricots ; Ben Ghazi, crimson ; 

 Queen of Spain, salmon ; and Duchess of Wellington, 

 heliotrope. These are strong, thrifty varieties, which 

 bloom freely. In two feet of good loamy soil, free from 

 wireworm, they will make large plants. 



The Carnation is a first-class suburban garden plant, 

 and near towns is often cleaner than in the country ; but 

 if disease should attack the leaves the remedy advised 

 in chapter x. should be brought into play. The method 

 of staking and propagating there advised should be 

 practised. Never keep old plants for several successive 

 years in a small garden, where every inch of space is 

 wanted. They get ugly, gawky and spreading. Neat, 

 close, compact plants are wanted. A Carnation set near 

 a cluster of bulbs will succeed the latter as an attraction 

 to the border. 



A few small varieties of Chrysanthemum and Michael- 

 mas Daisy may be set at intervals for autumn flowering, 

 but large, loose sorts must be avoided, or the border will 

 become crowded and untidy. 



Ryecroft Glory, Guinea Gold, Victor Mew, Roi des 

 Blancs and Nina Blick are close-growing, free-flowering 

 Chrysanthemums . 



The neatest, and one of the prettiest, of the Michael- 

 mas Daisies is the kind burdened with the formidable 

 name of diffusus horizontalis ; it is worth that and more. 

 Ericoides is another dwarf species, Amellus Bessarabicus 



