CARNATIONS 73 
Good Buttonhole Roses are Madame Falcot, apricot ; 
W. A. Richardson, rich yellow; Gustave Regis, buff yellow ; 
Liberty, bright crimson ; Anna Chartron, cream and rose ; Souvenir 
de Catherine Guillot, orange carmine shades. 
Suitable Roses for Town and Suburb.—Caroline Testout, 
La France, Mrs. John Laing, Frau Karl Druschki, Madame Abel 
Chatenay, Mrs. W. J. Grant, Hugh Dickson, Madame Jules Grolez, 
Captain Hayward, La Tosca, Ulrich Brunner, Madame Ravary, the 
Japanese Rosa rugosa, rose, and its white variety. 
rr Practically all the climbing Roses will succeed in suburban 
istricts, 
CARNATIONS 
Give the Carnation a loamy soil of fair quality (avoiding clayey 
or gravelly soils) and an open, sunny situation, and you have the chief 
essentials to success. To start a collection of Carnations it is best 
to buy the plants in small pots in March and plant them out towards 
the end of that month in soil that has been well dug but not heavily 
manured. Having, say, a dozen plants it is an easy matter to 
increase one’s stock. This is accomplished by the process known as 
layering, which is far simpler than it sounds. As the flower stems 
develop the growths at the base of the plant make rapid progress, 
and by the end of July are ready for layering. Having cut away 
the flower stem so that the young shoots may be spread out more 
easily, it is wise, though not absolutely essential, to remove some of 
the surface soil and replace with sifted sandy soil, making a little 
mound of this.round about the old plant. Select a number of 
sturdy, short jointed growths and strip off the lower leaves. As 
many good shoots as are available may be layered. A slit is made 
in the stem of each growth some 4 or 5 inches from the apex upon 
that part from which the leaves were removed. The knife (which 
should be sharp) is inserted just below a joint, and as soon as the 
centre of the stem is reached the cut is continued in an upward 
direction through the joint; the result is the formation of a 
“tongue.” The object of the worker is to place the cut stem in the 
mound of sandy soil with the tongue away from the stem proper. 
This becomes an easy matter with a little practice. A hairpin or 
small wooden peg is used to keep the shoot firmly embedded in the 
soil, being placed over the stem just below the cut ; when pressed 
into the ground it helps to keep the tongue open. 
Increasing One’s Stock.—The work is completed by 
thoroughly eovering the cut part of the stem with soil, even the 
eg being hidden. If the weather is hot and dry, the layers should 
Be sprinkled with water every evening to keep the soil moist and 
induce roots to form quickly. Each plant. will probably give at 
least half a dozen layers, and beginning the season with twelve 
plants one may have quite a nice little collection by autumn. 
By the first week in October the layers ought to be fairly well 
