SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. ClIAP. 



of the plants. The same soil that you struck your 

 plants in will do to blow them in. I will here give 

 MILLER'S direction for a mixture, and then proceed to the 

 propagating by seed : " take mould from a good upland 

 pasture, or a common that is of a hazel earth j dig out 

 earth from the first eight inches from the surface j let 

 this be laid in a heap to mellow for one year ; then mix 

 a third part of rotten neat's dung, or dung of an old 

 cucumber bed ; mix them well together, turn the heap 

 every mo-nth for eight months, and it will be fit for use." 

 By seed. The seed of the carnation does not every sum- 

 mer ripen in England j but seed is procured from the 

 continent in abundance. Sow in pots of light earth, or on 

 a cool bed with a frame over it, in the month of April j 

 and cover in in the slightest possible manner. Shade the 

 young plants from hot sun ; and, when they have six 

 leaves, prick them out two or three inches asunder, in a 

 well-prepared bed of the garden. The next year they 

 will flower, and, therefore, should be planted out, or 

 potted for blowing, in the fall of their first year's 

 growth. Lastly, the carnation is greatly the prey of 

 ear-wigs, so much so, that precautions the most careful 

 are always resorted to to prevent the plants falling a sa- 

 crifice to these mischievous vermin. See paragraph 308. 



435. CATCHFLY,pwA.Lat. Silene armeria.Yr. Si- 

 lene a bouquets. A hardy annual plant, common in Pro- 

 vence, about a foot high, and blows a pink or white 

 flower throughout the summer. Propagated by sowing 

 the seed where it is to grow. Likes a light, sandy, and 

 warm soil. 





