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"THE-- PINK. 
thrusting carrots into the heap at various 
places, and drawing them out and examining 
them about once a week, for the wire worms 
attack the carrot with great avidity, and eat 
their way into it ; by drawing them out once 
a week there will be a great number caught, 
and there is nothing that serves so well for a 
trap. It may be observed that almost all 
pastures have these more or less, and it would 
be very unsafe to trust any such soil without 
a thorough examination and clearing. Grubs, 
too, often abound in pasture land ; and 
though the top spit of a loamy field is the 
best of all soil for almost any thing, it requires 
the greatest care on account of the various 
kinds of vermin that are to be found among the 
roots of the grass. But as there may not be 
an opportunity of procuring new soil for a 
pink-bed, the next best thing to do is to dress 
the ordinary soil with a good three inch 
thickness of decayed dung from an old cu- 
cumber or melon bed, or well decomposed 
cow-dung; this three inches should be forked in, 
and mixed with the top spit of the ordinary 
soil, and it will be found well adapted for the 
plants. 
CHOICE OF PLANTS AND PLANTING. 
The best commencement of pink growing 
is to provide or procure plants of some suc- 
cessful cultivator in the autumn, from the 
store bed. See that they are healthy and well 
rooted, and having dug the bed and well 
mixed the dung with it — or if made entirely 
new, levelled the surface — plant the pinks out 
six inches apart all over the bed ; water them 
so as to settle the earth about the roots. With 
regard to the sorts with which to begin, the 
list appended will be of some use as a guide ; 
but as pinks bloom at different seasons, that is 
to say, some rather earlier than others, it is 
right, perhaps, to grow the whole, and they 
are not too many for a collection : — 
SELECT LIST OF PINKS. 
Turner's Beauty, Kirtland's Dr. Daubeny, 
Smith's Diana, Harris's Dauntless, Wilmer's 
Elizabeth, Brown's Garland, Kirtland's Gay 
Lad, Bragg's George Glenny, Ward's Great 
Britain, Smith's John Hampden, Turner's 
Masterpiece, Jelf's Mary Anne, Prior's Miss 
Blackstone, Hill's Queen of England, Church's 
Queen, Henbrey's Rubens, Neville's Enchan- 
tress, Keynes' Matchless, Norman's Henry 
Steers, Garrat's Queen Victoria, Hodge's 
Melona (alias Hodge's 166), Day's Earl of 
Uxbridge, Norman's Defiance, Aker's Lord 
Brougham, Collis's Majestic, Unsworth's 
Omega, Norman's Henry Creed, Creed's Pre- 
sident, Garret's Alpha, Cousin's Little Wonder, 
Wilmer's Duchess of Kent, Legge's Prince 
Albert, Weedon's Queen Victoria, Wilmer's 
Prince of Wales, White's Warden, Smith's 
Doctor Coke, BunkhilPs Queen Victoria, 
Neville.'s John Dickson, Church's Rosannah, 
Wilmer's Queen Victoria, Hodge's Gem, 
Holmes's Coronation,Fairburn'sBobLawrence, 
Garret's Emperor of the Roses, Kirtland's 
Lord Valentia, Mead's Susannah, Cant's Cor- 
tesian, Headly's Duke of Northumberland, 
Stow's Elizabeth, Jones's Huntsman, Kerr's 
Harriet. 
Many of the distinctions in pinks are very 
slight, and the shades of colour blend so nearly 
into one another, that it is extremly difficult 
in many instances to decide whether it is 
nearer a purple or a red, or a rose and a red; 
but as the chief property is the form and the 
regularity of the lacing, and in the metropoli- 
tan shows the different colours are not classed, 
— the only way in which a difference is recog- 
nised is on stands, where the greater the con- 
trast and variety the better, if all other points 
are equal. 
Most of the growers for sale cultivate the 
whole of these sorts, and many more ; for 
every one is a show pink, and some being later 
than others, it enables us to get a number of 
blooms of different varieties at seasons when 
we could not do it if Ave depended on a smaller 
assortment. Besides this, there are seasons in 
which one flower is much worse than others, 
although in other seasons it would far surpass 
them ; if it were not so, we could get the best 
twelve or eighteen sorts, and grow more of 
each sort ; but we should find ourselves 
always deficient in number of good blooms, 
because they will not all bloom together ; and 
hence the advantage of a more numerous col- 
lection, including pretty nearly all the varieties 
that yield even a chance of a bloom fit to ex- 
hibit. If the plants cannot be procured in 
autumn, or if a person is determined to com- 
mence in the spring, the plants ought to be 
obtained in pots, and such as have been win- 
tered in pots, because these may be planted 
out as late as April, and not be materially 
worse than if they were autumn planted. In 
this case the balls of earth must be turned out 
whole, and should be soaked in manure water 
long enough to wet the soil throughout. This 
manure water may be made with a spade-full 
of dung well decomposed, and a pail-full of 
water, the dung being well stirred about and 
mixed ; some of this may be put in a shallow 
pan, and only enough of it to reach two-thirds 
up the balls, which may be placed in the liquid 
about five minutes, whence they are put, with- 
out being disturbed more than is necessary, 
into their places. Water the bed well, that 
the earth may be closed about the roots ; 
and if there be any danger of frost, it will be 
well to throw over the whole bed some loose 
or light stuff, such as peas-haulm or broken 
