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them. 1 cannot say the sparrows have ever touched the fruit buds here, 
but as S( on as Peas are through the ground they commence nipping 
the tops oflE the leaves. — Geo. Gallahee, KUkerran Gardens, 
Ayrshire. 
CARLUDOVICA PALM^EFOLIA. 
When Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, exhibited a 
specimen of this plant at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
deeply divided, and the divisions 4 to G inches across. It is a fine 
lovely green, and the arching leaves give the plant a graceful appear¬ 
ance. It will succeed in a stove or intermediate house in a compost cf 
peat, loam, and sand. 
The Carludovicas are easily mistaken for Palms, which they closely 
resemble, but they are regarded as the botanical allies of the Screw- 
Pine (Pandanus) family. 
Fig, 58.—CARLUDOVICA PALM.EFOLIA. 
Society on August 27th, 1889, the Floral Committee at once awarded 
a fir8t-cla.ss certificate for it, a recognition that was well deserved, as 
the plant will evidently prove most useful. Several fine Carludovicas 
are in cultivation, and occasionally make their appearance at exhibi¬ 
tions in collections of fine-foliage plants, where they have a capital 
cfect. They are also sometimes employed in sub-tropical gardens, 
particularly C. palmata, which is of strong habit and well suited for 
that pur|K>8e. 
The species represented in the illustration (fig. 58), kindly supplied 
•by Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, is one of the most elegant known, 
■producing leaves 2 feet long and 1 foot wide at the broadest part 
THE CARNATION. 
( Continued front itaje 340. ) 
[Prizes for essays on the Carnation having been ollerel through 
the Kaling Gardeners’ Improvement Society, Mr. Charles Turner, the 
adjudicator, awarded the first prize to the following useful contribution 
of Mr. David Cooper, foreman, Gunnersbury House, Acton.] 
Layering, as I have already said, is the'surest method of propagating, 
and should be commenced about the last week in July. By that time 
the blooms will be out, so as to decide upon any sorts that were doubtful 
as regards their value. There are some sorts more difficult to root than 
