144 LAYERS OF CARNATIONS. [AUG. 



not an uninteresting one. I now continue my 

 directions concerning carnations. 



If you have not laid as many as are wanted, 

 or if those which are laid have not taken root, 

 you may continue to lay them during the 

 beginning of this month ; but it is not advisable 

 that this should be delayed till August, for, 

 unless the weather be very favourable, these 

 layers will not have time to make strong roots 

 before winter comes. The stems of such as 

 have done flowering should be cut off close to 

 the roots, and the sam& may be done by the 

 rooted layers which you intend to pot and keep 

 in frames during the winter. After they are 

 potted in fine, rich, light, vegetable mould, with 

 a small quantity of loam, they must be set in 

 a frame and watered. During the hot days, 

 they ought to be shaded from the sun, and 

 allowed no air till they have rooted, which you 



