CALENDAR 
INDEX 
BorpbeER Carnations— 
Bizarres, 16 
cross-fertilisation, 31 
cultivation of, 21 
exhibiting the flowers, 29 
Flakes, 16 
Picotee, white-ground, 19 
Picotee, yellow-ground, 20 
plants in pots, 22 
preparation of the beds, 21 
propagation from layers, 21 
select list of varieties, 35 
types of, 14 
wireworms, 22 
of garden operations, 
100 
Carnation, the wild, 1, 14 
HISTORICAL Notes— 
Benary, Emest, 9 
Botanical Magazine, 4, § 
Bower, Thomas, 7, 20 
Dodwell, E. S., 7 
Empress Josephine’s collection, 8 
Fellows, Rev. Charles, 7 
first recorded Carnation in Eng- 
land, 8 
Gerard’s Herbal, 2 
Hill’s Eden, 4 
Hogg’s book on the Carnation, 7 
Kit’s art of dressing, 8 
Lord of Todmorden, 7 
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Historical Notes (continned\— 
Marguerite Carnation, history and 
cultivation of, 39 
Norman of Woolwich, 7, 20 
Nunn, Christopher, and the art of 
dressing, 7 
Parkinson, 2 
Perpetual-flowering Carnation, origin 
of, Io 
Pink, introduction of, into Eng- 
land, 41 
Rea’s Flora, 3 
Shakespeare’s Winter's Tale, 2 
Smith, Martin Ridley, 9 
Smith, Richard, 8 
Simonite, Ben, 9, 20 
Souvenir de la Malmaison, origin of, 
13 
Turner, Charles, 9 
Turner’s Herbal, 2 
MALMalISON, Souvenir de la, 47 
feeding the plants, 53 
houses for, 48 
pests and diseases, 54 
potting the plants, 49 
propagation of, 48 
selection of varieties, 56 
shading, 55 
temperatures, 55 
ventilation, 53 
watering, 52 
