FASHIONABLE FLOWERS 



Miller, white ; N arses, crimson ; Robert Berkeley, scarlet ; 

 Floradora, pink ; Helen Countess of Radnor, crimson. 



Among the up-to-date Carnations that have lately 

 been sent forth with a flourish of trumpets are several 

 flowers of unusually attractive colouring e.g. Elizabeth 

 Shiffner, orange buff; Amazon, orange buff with red 

 tinge; Mrs. Henwood, white; Mrs. Robert Berkeley, 

 pink. La Milo is a beautiful, long-flowering, pink variety. 



Marguerite Carnations should appeal to the home 

 gardener, for they are very easily grown, and though 

 the flowers are rather small and boast no perfection of 

 form, they come in plenty in August and September, 

 when the beauty of many flowers is tarnished, and they 

 last a long time. They look charming in vases or pots 

 placed round about the house, and they are most useful 

 for cutting for the home. The seed is sown in February 

 or March in the greenhouse, the seedlings are nurtured 

 there until May, when they are put out a foot apart 

 where they are to bloom. 



Carnations may be perpetuated with very fair success 

 by cuttings ; it is best to take them early in July, then, 

 if inserted in sandy soil under a bellglass on a fairly shady 

 border, they will form roots. Success is even more likely 

 if they are kept in a greenhouse in a temperature of about 

 50, the pots containing them being in glass-covered boxes 

 above hot-water pipes. But I have rooted them with the 

 help of the cloche. 



Sweet Peas. Five years ago I should have had no 



