ISO CULTIVATION. 



trial : a new form of petals may be communicated 

 from the carnation, and it may receive a yellow 

 tinge from the yellow picotee ; and, however 

 such crossing might interfere with the ready- 

 made taste and fixed rules of the fancy, still a 

 new description and variety of dianthus may be 

 obtained, as worthy of admiration as the others. 



Their cultivation is exactly like that of the 

 carnation. They may be raised from seed, and 

 propagated by layers and pipings ; succeeding by 

 the latter mode rather better than the carnation. 



It is desirable to procure seed from Italy and 

 the southern parts of France and Spain. The 

 dianthus tribe is universally cultivated in the 

 latter kingdom, where they have innumerable 

 varieties. 



