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each plant had several side-shoots ; these I shortened, and, in a gentle hot- 

 bed, struck them. When rooted, I potted them in a rich loam, and kept 

 them in a cool frame. Early in October, I cut off tlieir leading shoots, and 

 struck them, which I also potted, and kept in a cool frame, with the excep- 

 tion of seven, not having room for them; these I then (October) planted in 

 the open ground, as well as a couple of the first-struck plants ; they had not 

 any protection in winter, only secured by a few slender sticks, to prevent 

 their being blown about. In April, I had these taken up and replanted, and 

 trained to a neat wire edging round a circular bed ; and from July to the 

 present time (December 10th) they have been in profuse bloom. I had a 

 few planted in the mixed flower-borders trained to neat tube-shaped wire 

 frames, six inches across, two plants to each, and they have also been in 

 beautiful bloom throughout the season. About half the plants I kept for 

 growing in pots I have had in bloom, either outdoors or in the greenhouse, 

 during all the time from last December to the present December, 185*2, and 

 now have some plants in bloom, and others with a profusion of buds likely 

 to bloom throughout winter. The other half of the plants in pots I turned 

 out in June, took away the crocks from the ball, replaced them by putting 

 in a portion of soil equal to their bulk, and plunged the pots overhead in a 

 border, close to a brick wall, four feet high, and trained the plants to it. 

 They have bloomed charmingly all the season, and now having taken them 

 into a greenhouse, I have the plants in fine bloom ; and though they had 

 rooted through the bottom hole of the pot, their removal has not injured 

 them, but their appearance, now in-doors, has much improved them. This 

 fine class of clove-scented perpetual-flowering Carnations appear to succeed 

 well, either in the open air, greenhouse, sitting-room, stove, frame, or pit. 

 They are all worth the attention of all lovers of flowers. — [Floricultural 

 Cabinet.) 



Pink Beds. — I am an old Pink-grower, in a northern county, where the 

 perfect full lacing of every petal is a desideratum. In this particular, we 

 northern florists excel the southern considerably — such are my conclusions 

 from what I have seen at the London exhibitions. Now, in order to have 

 full perfect lacing, let the plants have food to induce it; give the bed about 

 eight inches deep of old rotten dung to the same depth of good loam. If 

 you do this at the end of July, let the bed settle, and at the end of August 

 plant in it. In February following, lay three or four inches more dung over 

 the surface of the bed, and just cover it with good loam ; the rains will 

 filter through it, and laced flowers you will have to perfection. Of course 

 where the buds are too numerous, they are thinned, one only to each stem, 

 and one of thfese too are cut away. 1 also grow some of the best in simple 

 compost, in large pots, with success, though never had the blooms as large 

 as the others — but it affords the advantage of getting the blooms forward, or 

 keeping them back, for an exhibition. — [Id.) 



Daphne indica rubra. — This is a capital plant for the greenhouse, 

 blooming much freer than the white-flowered, and it is of easier culture. I 

 ana a Covent-garden Florist, and grow a vast number for the purpose of its 



