SEPTEMBER, 
257 
PINKS. 
(Plate 130.) 
Notwithstanding the many beautiful new and showy produc¬ 
tions we now have to select from, to illustrate our pages with, the 
Pink, old as it is, will always remain a favourite, and deserves our 
attention. What is more pretty—and what can compare with it 
in fragrance?—^grown with that care which none but the exhibitor 
can aflford to bestow on it, it is indeed a charming flower; it is, 
however, pretty under all circumstances. 
The florist is greatly indebted to Dr. Maclean, of Colchester, 
for many of the finest varieties we have in cultivation, two of 
which. Miss Nightingale and Miss Eaton, we figure in our present 
number. Dr. Maclean has long been a careful and most 
successful hybridiser, some of his late productions having petals 
equal in size and substance to a Picotee, with the edging as well 
defined. Of old kinds, produced by that gentleman, we may 
enumerate the following :—Criterion, New Criterion, Mrs. 
Maclean, Narboro’ Buck, and Colchester Buck; those of more 
recent date are. Purity, Napoleon, John Ball, Gem, and Eugenie, 
to which must be added the two represented by our plate. 
The Pink is hardy, and easily cultivated—yet to ensure large 
and fine blooms, cuttings should be struck in June, and, the beds 
having been well prepared by trenching, and mixing in a liberal 
supply of rotten manure, with pure loam, plant out for blooming, 
as soon as the young plants are sufficiently rooted from the piping 
bed; this plan is not generally adopted, but it is by far the best; 
managed in this way we find them winter better and produce 
larger flowers, more correctly and evenly laced. We attribute 
this to the roots penetrating deeper into the soil, thereby being 
less likely to be injured, either by frost in winter or dry weather 
in spring. 
For more detailed particulars respecting the culture of this 
useful and really pretty flower, we beg to refer our readers to 
our monthly calendar. 
CHRONICLES OF A SMALL GARDEN..—No. II. 
If any one took the trouble to read the paper under this title in the 
last number, they very probably asked themselves, How can a man 
with small means be able to have new flowers ? In answer to this 
very natural question, I may say that in one respect I have a very great 
advantage over many of my brother florists, viz., that of living in the near 
neighbourhood of one of the most successful florists in the kingdom, 
and who possesses in an eminent degree that, without which no man 
is a true lover of flowers,—a liberal spirit. To him I am indebted 
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