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ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 



The Carnation Manual. Edited and issued by the National Carnation 



and Picotee Society ( Southern Section). London : Cassell & Co. 

 8vo, pp. xix., 191. Price 3s. 6d. 



One of the results looked for from the Carnation Conference 

 at Chiswick, in July, 1890, was a consolidation of the practical 

 methods of successful cultivation of carnations and pinks on the 

 part of experienced growers. In furtherance of this idea, the 

 National Carnation and Picotee Society have issued a Carnation 

 Manual, consisting of a series of twenty-one short essays by 

 various writers, with an introduction by the Eev. F. D. Horner. 

 They are written in a light and easy manner, and are all thoroughly 

 practical. It may, perhaps, seem invidious to select any for special 

 mention ; but that by Mr. F. W. Burbidge on " The Carnation in 

 Ireland," and that on "Diseases" by Mr. Martin Eowan, are written 

 in a scholarly style. The latter is illustrated by two excellent cuts. 

 Mr. Dean's contribution on "Propagation of the Carnation" might 

 with advantage have been a little longer. It is interesting to learu 

 from Mr. Eowan that carnations, like human beings, are liable to 

 gout from too much coddling and indulgence in high living. This 

 tendency to over-culture was especially emphasized at the Con- 

 ference, as also the fact that the pinks are hardy species, and 

 in their natural condition occur in open situations on a sandy or 

 chalky soil. Among obvious slips, the specific name of the 

 botanist Dodoens was not Eembrandt, but Eembert ; Gerard did 

 not spell his name with three r's (p. 138); and "Flora's fair 

 domain" is not synonymous with the front-garden. On p. 187, 

 "a solution of soft-soapy water" is somewhat tautological, if not 

 obscure. It is probably a cacoethes typoijrophiendi which requires 

 that the name of the book should be printed at the head of every 

 page : it would be more useful if the name of the particular essay 

 were substituted. The inside of the cover is, moreover, disfigured 

 by pictorial advertisements. But these are small matters. This 

 handy volume has much to recommend it to all enthusiastic growers 



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F. N. Williams. 



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Artificial production of Ehythm in Plants.' — J. B. Farmer 



Embryogeny of AngiopUru evecta' (1 plate). — M. F. Ewart! 



' Staminal hairs of Thmum ' (1 plate). - 0. Stapf, « Sonerile* of 



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