690 Hogg's Supplement to his Treatise on Floriculture. 



from a choice selection of seeds, pui'chased from Mr. Charl- 

 wood. The flowers are much larger than those of the com- 

 mon Ciiina aster; in general, " they are more double, and 

 the colours, whether plain or striped, are more rich, distinct, 

 and varied. The seeds should be sown the first week in April, 

 in order to get the plants strong and forward, either in pots 

 or seed-pans, keeping the sorts distinct; the pots may then 

 be placed in a cold frame till the plants come up." When 

 they are of the proper size, they may be transplanted into beds 

 or borders, like the common varieties. A few of the finest and 

 most distinct varieties are: — Deep red; deep red, striped; pale 

 red; pale red, tipped with white; dark bhie; dark blue, striped ; 

 pale blue; pale blue, striped; yellow-tinged; white; silver 

 white; flesh-coloured; ash-grey, &c. 



We recommend the following observations to the attention 

 of the young gardener : old ones will, of course, reject them 

 with contempt: — " Gardeners unaccustomed to flowers are, 

 in general, bad propagators ; few of them have any right 

 notions of piping ; and, though nothing is more simple, they 

 never set about it as if they wished to succeed. They are, 

 likewise, great bunglers in layering; there is not one in ten 

 whose assistance 1 would claim upon the most pressing occa- 

 sion, if I were obliged to leave the operation to him, uncon- 

 trolled and unlooked after : whereas I could trust implicitly 

 to any amateur cobbler, tailor, weaver, or barber, who had 

 had the least practice with his own flowers, to do this layering in 

 the most satisfactory manner. This I know, from experience, 

 that very few })rofessed gardeners, unless fond of the flower 

 itself [the carnation], seem to take any care of it, either to 

 treat it rightly, or to bloom it v/ell." {Supp. p. 130.) 



Speaking of the arrangement of tulips, Mr. Hogg states 

 that the hints given by us (Vol. II. p. 309.) for an improve- 

 ment in this department " were rejected by all our amateurs, 

 who pretended to any taste in these matters, as totally inap- 

 plicable." So were hints founded on the same principle, 

 offered by us to the Royal Academicians, in a pamphlet pub- 

 lished nearly thirty years ago, for classing the pictures in the 

 annual exhibitions at Somerset House: that is, placing all 

 landscapes by themselves; all historical pictures by them- 

 selves ; all portraits, &c. &c. We are certain, however, that 

 these hints will, sooner or later, be adopted ; possibly even 

 in the Gallery now building. What we proposed to do in a 

 show tulip-bed was founded on the same general principles 

 that we applied to the exhibition of pictures; viz. to preserve 

 each class or kind by itself, such as roses, bybloemens, 

 bizarres, &c., instead of indiscriminately mixing them from 



