SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP, 



varieties have white and double flowers. Propagated 

 by sowing the seed as soon as ripe, in light earth 

 exposed to the sun, and planting out the folio wing March. 

 Also by sowing in a hot-bed or in borders in the spring. 

 Is hardy, and will sow itself when in a warm and dryish 

 soil. 



433. CANDY-TUFT, the purple. Lat. Iberis umbel- 

 lata. Fr. Iberide eu ombelle. An annual plant from the 

 south of France. About two feet high, and blows, in 

 June and July, a great abundance of purplish flowers. 

 Propagated by seed sown in beds, where it is to blow. 

 Any soil suits it, and it is very ornamental. 



434. CARNATION. Lat. Dianthus caryophyllus.Fr. 

 L'Odllet des fleuristes. An indigenous plant ; a perennial, 

 but one that has been improved by the great care that flo- 

 rists have bestowed upon it for many years. It is, indeed, 

 by many esteemed the finest of flowers, next after the 

 tulip ; which it surpasses in one respect, that of adding 

 great fragrance to great beauty. It is cultivated either in 

 beds, borders, or pots: in the latter for the parlour chiefly ; 

 and it is propagated by layers, pipings, or seed. It blows 

 from July to August, flowers of from two to three, or even 

 four inches diameter, of divers colours, and either single, 

 semi-double, or double. But there are three distinct 

 varieties j which are, the Flake, the Bizarre, the Pwotee. 

 The flake has two colours only, and their stripes are 

 large j the bizarre is variegated with spots and stripes 

 irregularly, and has not less than three colours j the 

 picote'e has mostly a white ground spotted with scarlet, 

 redj purple, pink, or some variety of these colours. The 



