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THE GAEDEN PINK FOR FORCING PURPOSES. 
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showers in the middle of June has made up for the bad start the plants had after 
they were planted out, in consequence of the dry weather. Barely has the flower- 
garden looked gayer or better at this season; and if we have fine weather in the 
autumn, we may look for a long continuance of beauty. Attend well to the 
regulating of all shoots ; keep all decaying leaves and flowers constantly picked 
off ; and stake and tie up tall-growing plants. Among hardy perennials, the 
numerous fine varieties of the Phlox tribe will now be in great beauty. Propa¬ 
gation for another season must be commenced at once. Most kinds of Pelar¬ 
goniums root best in a south border in the open air. Petunias^ Verbenas^ and 
similar plants root best in frames. Pentsteinons, Snapdragons, and similar plants 
will succeed very well planted under hand-glasses and shaded. Attend regularly 
to the mowing of lawns, and the sweeping and rolling of walks.—M. Saul, 
Stourton. 
THE GAEDEN PINK FOE FOECING PUEPOSES. 
S HE Giarden Pink, in its several varieties, has alwaj^s been, and will, no 
doubt, long continue to be, a special favourite. Everybody loves the 
modest beauty and delightful fragrance of its flowers, and many consider it 
as only inferior to the Bose itself. One or two varieties of this Pink 
have been generally found very useful for forcing into flower during the winter 
and early spring months; and I would here call attention to a few other sorts, 
well suited to the same purpose, but which are not so well known as they 
should be. 
The varieties mostly used for forcing are the Common., or London White., a 
fragrant and very useful sort; and a larger dark variety known by the name of 
Anne Boleyn, and which produces exceedingly beautiful and very sweet-scented 
flowers, but has the great drawback of being addicted to bursting its pod or calyx. 
Observing and regretting this defect, an enthusiastic amateur florist, Bowland 
Dalton, Esq., of Bury St. Edmund’s, many years since, after much perseverance, 
succeeded in originating a variety with flowers of the same colour, somewhat 
smaller, similar in habit, equally fragrant, and possessed of all the forcing 
properties of Anne Boleyn, but with the advantage of having a strong, well-formed 
calyx, which never by any chance bursts ; and this very useful variety was 
named Claude. He afterwards succeeded in raising another still more beautiful 
variety, which he named Plato., and this is a truly magnificent flower of a 
beautiful rose colour, with a finely-formed, strong calyx, quite free from 
bursting, and it proves to be also a fine forcing sort, coming into flower earlier 
than Anne Boleyn. 
Another amateur florist residing in the same town, Mr. J. Clarke, who has 
made the cultivation of the Pink quite a specialty, has, amongst many other 
triumphs in that way, originated an exceedingly fine variety resembling the 
old favourite Anne Boleyn, but a great improvement upon it, being more 
