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PLANTING 



Now as to planting. With our scarcely veiled enthusiasm for 

 the border carnation, we naturally give it a prominent position 

 in the nursery. It is not planted away out of sight nor in odd 

 corners. We do not " hide its light under a bushel," but select 

 for it a position where its merits can be displayed ; in fact, we 

 make the plants advertise themselves, and this they can do better 



FIG. 14. A " Layer" 

 Potted 



than any advertisement of ours can do for them. Throughout the 

 early summer we hardly get a visitor who is indifferent to the 

 lure of the carnation beds, and many a hundred orders have been 

 booked for plants without any solicitation from us. Visitors 

 whose thoughts have not run on carnations have been impressed 

 when seeing them in bloom, especially the outstanding varieties, 

 and have suddenly discovered that they can find a spot somewhere 

 in the garden where they could be fitted in. Approached in the 

 ordinary way in the autumn by means of a catalogue, the appeal 

 would leave them cold, but when this appeal takes the form of a 

 perfect flower, rich or dainty in colour, exquisitely perfumed, 

 displaying its hardiness, and the ease with which it can be grown, 



