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FLOWER GARDEN. 
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drop of rain ever reached the roots from 
above, or a drop of water ever went below 
the surface, the foliage ought not to go without 
moisture. There is no plant in the botanical 
world that derives more benefit from a gentle 
shower than the Tulip ; and when, as is often 
the case, it can get none for a considerable 
period, none derives more benefit from a gentle 
watering all over the foliage, but not in such 
quantity as to penetrate the earth much, for 
that is immaterial. It should, however, be 
soft river or pond water, or rain water, that is 
used; and though it may seem trifling, if, on 
plunging a thermometer into it, there appears 
many degrees difference in the heat, a little 
warm water to raise the temperature to that 
of the air, or a trifle above it, will be of infinite 
service. 
Carnations and Piccotees. — Make up 
your stock of these as early in the month as you 
please; because, having been got well over the 
worst of the winter, there is no danger of their 
coming to harm; and it is no use giving orders 
after the best have been selected by other 
persons, and some of the favourite sorts sold 
out altogether. It is vexing to find in another's 
stand of flowers, one or two brilliant ones 
which you might have had if you had liked ; 
and which, perhaps, make the exact point that 
throws you down two or three in a show. If 
there are any of the following that you have 
not got, get them if you can; not that they are 
all sure to give you fine show blooms, for they 
are, like all other flowers, uncertain; but they 
are all capable of producing splendid show 
flowers, and when one fails, another does not : 
the sorts are, 
CARNATIONS. 
Scarlet Bizars. 
Scarlet Flakes. 
Twitchet's Don John 
Headley's Achilles 
Strong's Duke of York 
Colcut's Brutus 
RainfortlVs Game Boy 
Smith's Duke of Welling- 
ton 
Martin's Splendid 
Lodge's True Briton 
Roi de Capuchins 
Bucknell's Earl Fitzhar- 
dinge 
Ely's Lord Pollington 
Sharpe's Defiance 
Elliott's Duke of Suther- 
land 
Fletcher's Duke of Devon- 
shire 
Hale's Prince Albert 
Appleby's Prince of Wales 
Crimson or Pink and Purple Bizars. 
Ely's Lord Milton 
Ely's Duke of Bedford 
Mansley's Robert Burns 
Sealy's Princess Royal 
Puxly's Prince Albert 
Wakefield's Pad Pry 
Barnard's Duke of Rox- 
burgh 
Purple Flakes. 
Ely's Hugo Meynell 
Chambers's Kate 
Holmes's Count Pauline 
Strong's Linnaeus 
Cartwright's Rainbow 
Jaques's Georgiana 
Venables's Spitfire 
Ely's John Wright 
Ely's Mango 
Mansley's Beauty of Wood- 
house 
Mansley's Bonny Bess 
Nix's Lady Chetwynd 
Milwood's Premier 
Martin's President 
Wilmer's Solander 
Christian's Excellent 
Strong's Esther 
Pollard's First-rate 
Brabbin's Squire Meynel 
Prince de Nassau 
Turner's Princess Char- 
lotte 
Simpson's Marquis of 
Granby 
Twitchet's Queen of Scar- 
lets 
Chadwick's Brilliant 
Bucknell's Ulysses 
Wig's Earl of Leicester 
Brown's Bishop of Glou- 
cester 
Ely's North Midland 
Mitchel's Patriot 
Jones's Brilliant 
Wilmer's Hero of Middle- 
sex 
Grcasley's Mary-Anne 
Wilson's William IV. 
Addenbroke's Lydia 
Holdham's Defiance 
Pose Flakes. 
Brook's Flora Garland 
Ely's Lady Ely 
Ely's Lovely Anne 
Greasley's Village Maid 
Hyan's Queen Victoria 
Askwith's Miss Walker 
Tomlin's Brestes 
Iron's Defiance 
Wood's Rosabelle 
Wilson's Harriett 
Barranger's Apollo 
Fletcher's Duchess of De- 
vonshire 
Lowe's Marchioness of 
Westminster 
Elliot's Duchess of Suther- 
land 
Hufton's Rosea 
PICCOTEES. 
Red Edge. 
Barraud's Cornelius 
Sharpe's Duke of Welling- 
ton 
Sharpe's Gem 
Sharpe's Red Rover 
Wildman's Isabella 
Headley's Sarah 
Brinklow's Rising Sun 
Sharpe's Countess de Grey 
Gidden's Prineess Royal 
Kirkland's Duke of Wel- 
lington 
Sharpe's Hector 
Brinklow's Masterpiece 
Jessop's Sir W. Middleton 
Burrow's Mrs. Bevan 
Purple Edge. 
Headley's Nannette 
Brinklow's Pre-Perfection 
Brinklow's Lady Chester- 
field 
Dickson's Trip to Cam- 
bridge 
Giddin's Vespasian 
Ely's Field Marshal 
Ely's Mrs. Fenton 
Ely's Favorite 
Kirkland's Princess Au- 
gusta of Cambridge 
John's Prince Albert 
Barraud's Coriolanus 
Mansley's Nulli Secundus 
Sharpe's Invincible 
Sharpe's Agitator 
Wilmer's Prince Royal 
Pose and Scarlet Edge. 
Barnard's Mrs. Barnard 
Barraud's Bride 
Green's Queen Victoria 
Kirkland's Mrs. Annesley 
Twitchet's Fair Rosamond 
Wilson's Miss Fanny Irby 
Wain's Queen Victoria 
Dickson's Bride 
Garratt's Lady Dacre 
Wilmer's Princess Royal* 
They will now require the most strict atten- 
tion; they must not yet be watered more than 
is absolutely necessary for their actual preser- 
vation; for the fact of the soil being wet, will 
not only endanger them from damp, but they 
are far more susceptible of frost; and, when 
attacked by frost, the fibres are more suscep- 
tible of damage ; besides which the fibres are 
now growing fast, and are therefore young 
and soft. 
Alterations, planting shrubs, making box 
edgings, (which, with all their faults, are the 
neatest, brightest, and, for any but slovenly 
gardeners, the best of all edgings,) and re- 
moving plants of any sort, should be completed 
forthwith; there is more risk this month than 
there was last, and will be more next month 
than now: not that all may not be done safely 
at much later periods than they are done; but 
that it is better to do all things as soon as they 
can be well done. 
* Glenny's Almanac, 
