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roots. In about a month or six weeks, if the soil has been 
kept moderately moist, the layers may be severed from 
the parent plant and established for themselves; or they 
may remain where they are, if the stem to which they are 
attached be carefully cut off. 
The Carnation requires a rich, generous, deep soil. A 
compost of three parts of good, strong garden loam, 
three parts hot-bed manure, two years old, three parts of 
coarse river sand, two parts dry manure from a hen-house, 
sifted, and two parts of soot from a wood fire, has been 
recommended for the Carnation. 
Clove Pink is more hardy than the Carnation, of 
which it is the parent; the petals are more fringed, and 
the fragrance more powerful, resembling that of the 
Clove. In France it is called the Clove’ Gilly-flower. 
“Some suppose this latter name to have been corrupted 
from July-flower, July being its flowering time. Drayton 
so names it.” 
“The curious choice July flower, 
Whose kinds hight the Carnation, 
For sweetness of mogt sovereign power 
Shall help my wreath to fashion ; 
Whose sundry colors of one kind, 
First from one root derived, 
Them in their several suits I’ll bind, 
My garland so contrived,” 
Perpetual Carnation Pink — Tree Carnation, or Win- 
ter-flowering. — The great improvement in this tribe 
- has added an invaluable feature to the section of winter- 
blooming plants for the drawing-room, conservatory, or 
green-house. The delicately rich and grateful odor, in 
connection with the brilliant color and good outline of the 
flowers now offered, will secure for them a prominent 
place in the forcing department, and, ere long, be regarded 
as an indispensable requisite in the portable drawing-room 
flower vase. 
