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propagating bed, the temperature of which should be 60. Aired 

 every morning and sprinkled with water of equal temperature, 

 these cuttings should be rooted in a week. After another week 

 they should be potted off into 6o's and stood in a warm house 

 for a fortnight, then taken to a cooler house and gradually 



Carnation Cutting 



FIG. 7. 



Rooted Carnation Cutting 



hardened. Early in May a cold frame suits them very well, 

 and by the middle of the month they are saleable. 



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The greenhouse Carnation, about which we shall have more 

 to say in a later volume, has become perhaps the most valued 

 of all our greenhouse market flowers, not even excepting the 

 Chrysanthemum and the Rose. Its season is a long one, from 



