514 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ Jane 23, 1881. 
all lower side shoots being removed. Chrysanthemums can be 
readily lifted from the open ground, and the young plants may, 
to save labour, be planted out in a good open border. If kept 
pinched back during this month good specimens may eventually 
be lifted for flowering, with perhaps the loss only of a few lower 
leaves. 
Carnations. — The Tree or perpetual-flowering varieties of 
these are of great value for winter flowering. Old plants are 
not retained by good growers, the young plants from autumn or 
spring-struck cuttings giving better results. These, when well 
established in small pots, may be transferred to 8-inch or 10-inch 
pots, and be grown for a time in a cold frame, and afterwards in 
the open. They should not be stopped in any way ; the central 
growth, and later on the principal side shoots, being supported 
with stakes. 
GARDEN TENTS. 
Tents and marquees are prominent features at horticultural 
and agricultural shows, as is indicated by the oft-employed term 
in reference to the displays—“ a great show of canvas.” Tents 
are perhaps the oldest of habitations, yet this ancient mode of 
shelter has also become a modern necessity during the summer 
months, and a most enjoyable adjunct of the garden. Tents 
have of late years been in greater demand for lawns since the 
pleasurable and healthy garden games of croquet, lawn tennis, 
&c., became popular. They are made of various forms and sizes 
to meet all requirements, and the importance of tenting and 
shading materials were recognised by the Royal Horticultural 
Society by the offer of prizes for them at the late summer Show. 
In the silver medal collection of Mr. Benjamin Edgington of 
Duke Street, London Bridge, the new patent umbrella tent at¬ 
tracted much notice, and its suitability for small lawns was 
apparent. This tent is shown in the accompanying figures 
—in a closed form, showing its portability; and open with walls, 
the latter of course being optional. The advantages claimed by 
the manufacturers for this patent over the old umbrella tent 
are threefold—Greater simplicity of construction, superior 
strength and lightness, and increased facility of erection. Instead 
of the double set of ribs and stretchers used in the old umbrella 
tent, which was of precisely similar construction to any ordinary 
umbrella, this patent dispenses entirely with the ribs, and the tent 
is opened by pulling down the runner instead of pushing it up ; 
and this can be done with ease by one person. The ample space 
between the lining and the outer cover forms an air-chamber of 
great value in warding off the heat of the sun. The pole is 
dropped into a socket which is let into the ground, and the tent 
can be altogether removed in a few minutes. Smaller and larger 
forms are made, more simple or more elaborate than the one re¬ 
presented. Another tent (see page 515), exhibited by Mr. Wm. 
Cains of Poole, for which a certificate of merit was granted at the 
same Show—also attracted notice by its novelty and utility. It is 
square, or nearly so, without a centre pole, and the seat and 
table inside are convertible into a box 2 feet by 18 by 9 inches, 
into which the tent and its appurtenances can be packed. It is 
referred to in our report of the Show on page 462, but the figure 
will afford a better idea of this strong, neat, and handy canvas 
shelter. 
PYRETHRUMS, SINGLE AND DOUBLE. 
Yotjb correspondent “Single-handed” since he published 
his celebrated protest against double flowers ought to feel himself 
highly honoured, for not in the Journal of Horticulture alone 
have his remarks been criticised, and generally with considerable 
ability, also in a manner that makes even adverse criticism wel¬ 
come to all, and nearly always instructive. The champion of 
siDgle flowers will find his task a difficult one if he hopes to turn 
the tide against Roses as they are shown at the great exhibitions, 
and he will not find it easy to make the majority of people be¬ 
lieve that single Hollyhocks, Asters, Marigolds, Chrysanthemums, 
&c., are more beautiful than the double forms; while, on the other 
hand, his opponents do not appear to clamour for double Auriculas, 
Polyanthuses, Phloxes, Pansies, Verbenas, Calceolarias, Gladioli, 
and Orchids. 
The general position of “ Single-handed ” has not yet been 
seriously shaken. A vast number of ardent lovers of flowers en¬ 
tertain strong opinions that there is too much formalism in the 
ideal of the advanced florists, and they will not be bound by their 
rigid rules either as applied to double flowers or single. Nature 
produces double flowers no doubt, just as she occasionally pro¬ 
duces lambs with two tails and calves with two heads ; but there 
are people who will not admire monstrosities either in the vege¬ 
table or animal kingdom. But to the Pyrethrums. 
If your correspondent was at South Kensington on the occa¬ 
sion of the great Show there he would rejoice in a triumph, for 
