446 THE PLEASURE, OR [July. 
Continue to propagate your choice carnations and pinks, by layers 
and pipings, as directed in page 421; for the performance of which, 
.the early part of this month is a very principal time. Give the 
necessary shade and water to the plants now in flower, and see that 
those layers which were laid last month are kept sufficiently moist, 
to promote their free rooting. 
When the layers are properly rooted, which will be the case with 
most sorts in a month after laying, provided due care be taken to 
keep them regularly moist, and to shade them from the heat of the 
meridian sun; they are then to be taken off from the old plant, 
with about half an inch of the stalk which connects them to it, and 
be immediately planted in small pots, one, two, three or four in 
each. The pots should be filled with the compost recommended in 
page 295, previously adding thereto, a little more loam and coarse 
sand, and when the plants are neatly planted therein, the pots 
should be buried to their rims in a convenient airy place, and arches 
of hoops placed over the bed, on which to lay mats to shade the 
plants from the sun, till well rooted and growing freely; and these 
mats are to be afterwards laid on occasionally as necessity may re- 
quire, to protect the plants from too powerful sunshine or heavy 
torrents of rain, which are both injurious to them. 
Here they are to remain till November, when they must be re- 
moved into their winter repository, as then directed; during this 
time, they must have a sufficiency of water as often as it may ap- 
pear necessary, to keep them in a constant growing state and good 
health. 
The layers of the common kinds of carnations, should when tak- 
en off, be planted in beds of rich earth, in rows about six inches 
asunder; where they are to be watered and shaded until well taken 
with the ground and growing. They may remain in these beds 
till September, October, or March, and are then to be taken up with 
balls of earth, and planted where intended to flower. 
Finks. 
The most valuable kinds of pinks should be treated in every re- 
spect as directed for carnations. 
Sensitive Plant. 
The Sensitive plants which have been raised in hot-beds, may 
about the first of this month, if not done in June, be brought out 
into the open air, and placed in a very warm situation, for they de- 
light in much heat; but some ought to be kept constantly under 
glasses, for when fully exposed to the weather, they lose much of 
their sensibility. 
The species I particularly allude to, is the Mimosa pudica,- or 
humble and sensitive plant, which is thus characterized in the 
flowing poetry of Darwin: 
" Weak with nice sense the chaste Mimosa stands, 
From each rude touch withdraws her tender hands; 
