tio PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 
I was asked by Mr. Smith to distribute the new Carnations 
taised by him, and they were widely dispersed all over the 
British Empire. Mr. Smith was also successful in crossing 
the border Carnations with pollen taken from the Souvenir 
de la Malmaison type, and he thus obtained quite a new 
type of Carnation, His eldest son, Mr. Nigel Smith, culti- 
vated yellow Carnations only, and he was successful in 
raising Cecilia, one of the most popular of yellow varieties. 
Both these raisers have passed from us, but their work 
remains, and hundreds of earnest cultivators are raising 
improved varieties from the stock so freely distributed by 
Mr. Smith. 
PERPETUAL-FLOWERING, OR TREE, 
CARNATION 
The Perpetual-Flowering Carnation originated in the 
eighteenth century in France; it is readily distinguished 
from any other type, owing to its habit of producing side 
growths freely from the main stem, The central growth 
produces flowers as in the border Carnation, the side 
growths in their turn furnishing a succession of blooms ; 
and, if the plant is potted on into larger flower-pots for two 
or three years, a very large specimen can thus be obtained, 
and the term “Tree’”’ Carnation applied to such a plant is 
not inappropriate. I well remember, when an apprentice in 
a provincial nursery in Scotland in 1852-53, a consignment 
of these new Carnations being sent from London. They 
produced long, lanky growths in the greenhouse, and miser- 
able-looking flowers. They were planted out and trained 
to a wall in the summer, growing to a height of 4 or 5 feet, 
and the stems were very slender. It was about 1865-66 
that a variety named A. Alegatiere was sent over from 
