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in bloom ; Royalty, a large petalled flower of 

 silky texture, in a pleasing shade of rose-pink, 

 and good in every other detail; G. H. Crane, 

 a flower of brilliant scarlet and a great win- 

 ter favourite, one of the best in this respect ; 

 Queen Louise, a pure white of the best form 

 even from an English point of view, and a 

 free flowering kind for growing in quantity ; 

 Harry Fenn, a clear bright crimson very large, 

 fragrant, and with a fine stem ; Floriana, in 

 delicate coral pink, of good form and consti- 

 tution, and really free in winter. These Mr. 

 Dutton places in the front rank of American 

 Carnations. Other varieties are Stella, a white 

 flower pencilled with rose at the edges ; Mer- 

 maid, a salmon pink, which has gained a good 

 reputation ; Marquis, a 



dually hardened off, and grown on in a cold 

 house with side and top ventilation. They 

 should be stopped once, from two weeks to a 

 month after they are rooted, and re-potted as 

 soon as side-shoots break, never letting them 

 get pot-bound. They should remain outside 

 (or better still in a cold frame) from May till 

 the end of August, and then be placed in their 

 flowering quarters. 



LIVE FENCING FOR WOOD- 

 LAND. 



An immense amount of energy is devoted in our 

 country to fencing, which is wholly avoided in 

 some other lands. The attention lately given to 

 the planting of cold andheavy very poor orwet 



light pink with a long 

 stem ; Apollo, with 

 large flowers of a bril- 

 liant scarlet ; Alba, a 

 good white of glisten- 

 ing purity, good in 

 form and stem ; and 

 Governor Roosevelt, a 

 useful kind of good 

 form, in deep crimson 

 of an intense shade. 

 The largest Ameri- 

 can kind, Prosperity, 

 is more curious than 

 beautiful, its white 

 petals mottled with 

 pink being less pleas- 

 ing than the self- 

 colours. 



Culture. — Tree Carnations can be had in 

 flower nearly the year round, and if their ease 

 of culture were a little better realised they 

 would be grown yet more largely for winter 

 bloom, when a temperature of 45 to 50 degrees 

 is all that is needed to ensure a continual dis- 

 play of bloom ; a little heat and good ventila- 

 tion being the two essentials. Shading must 

 be used from May onwards as the sun gains 

 strength, but the plants should never be wa- 

 tered unless fairly dry. Disbudding should be 

 done to secure stems 2 to 3 feet in length, for, 

 as an experienced grower, I have found that 

 useless buds and not length of stem soonest ex- 

 haust the plant. These are easily rooted from 

 cuttings in heat, from January to March, gra- 



CAR NATION. MRS. T. W. LAWSON. 



lands, profitless for arable culture and often for 

 good grass, makes the question a pressing one. 

 Our way of keeping stock in the open air instead 

 of in sheds, and the abundance of game destruc- 

 tive to young trees, makes fencing a necessity; 

 to simplify it as far as may be and to make it en- 

 during, is worth thinking about. The follow- 

 ing, by one who has been much concerned with 

 fencing in wooded country for some years, will, 

 it is hoped, prove of interest to planters, and 

 indeed to all concerned with the beauty of our 

 country — one of its best possessions. For what 

 fair land could endure the ugliness of fencing of 

 barbed wire, as we hearofits use in South Ame- 

 rica and other countries where our handsome 

 living fences are unknown? Some thinkandact 



