io4 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 
may all be placed out-of-doors. The Flakes, Bizarres, and 
Picotees ought all to be kept in their proper order, and 
it is well that they should also be arranged alphabetically. 
From time immemorial, the Bizarres have been placed in 
the following order: Scarlet, Crimson, Pink, Purple. Flakes 
begin with Purple, followed by Scarlet and Rose. Picotees 
are arranged thus: Red, heavy and light edged; Purple, 
heavy and light ; Rose and Scarlet, heavy and light edged. 
If they are also arranged in the order of the alphabet, any 
variety can be found at once as easily as names in a dic- 
sionary. As two plants are placed in an 8-inch flower-pot, 
and three in a g-inch, there is, at the first, a considerable 
body of soil and no active roots in it, therefore no water is 
needed until some days after repotting. Few of the plants 
will require any sticks, but any that are weakly should be 
supported to save them from injury by wind. The seed- 
lings should be pricked out 3 inches apart into seed-boxes 
or frames. In a warm house the seedlings appear above 
ground in a week or so, and it is best to prick them out 
as soon as the seed-leaves are fully developed. 
Malmaison Varieties.—Amateurs sometimes inquire if 
this class of Carnations may be planted in the borders 
out-of-doors. They may be planted, but only some of 
the hybrid Malmaisons will succeed. The variety Prime 
Minister does well; it is a bright scarlet flower. Other 
varieties that may be planted out are Horace Hutchinson, 
Scarlet Iolanthe, bright rose, Lady rose, Lady Ulrica, 
salmon-rose, Mercia, salmon, and Nautilus, delicate pink. 
These may be planted out in a rather sheltered position at 
about the end of the month. Those flowering under glass 
must be kept free from green-fly and thrips by fumigations 
carried out before the flowers open; the smell of tobacco 
