MANAGEMENT OF CARNATIONS. 109 



is not to be neglected, since, in damp shady 

 places, where scarcely any other plant will 

 grow, it creeps upon the ground, covering it 

 entirely with its bright green leaves in the 

 spring, and in the summer with its golden 

 flowers, which are not unlike strings of gold 

 eagles. 



You see, I have been fully employed since I 

 wrote ; besides, I have had much work to do : 

 my box edgings have been clipped, and my 

 gravel has been weeded ; this is very necessa- 

 ry, otherwise the seeds of the weeds, which 

 spring through it, if allowed to ripen, would be 

 scattered all over the garden. 



I am now very busy tying up carnations; 

 cutting off their small flower buds, in order 

 that those left may blossom finer; and tying 

 fine bass round those flower pods that are 

 rather round than long, to prevent their burst- 



