Plate 228 . 
VARIETIES OE TREE CARNATIONS. 
The production of flowers that will bloom during the dark 
and dreary months of winter has become more than ever an 
object amongst our cultivators, since no fete, whether public 
or private, is considered complete without a supply of natural 
flowers. Amongst those which have become valuable for this 
purpose, we know of none more worthy of a place in our green¬ 
houses than the numerous varieties of Tree Carnations and 
Picotees, three of which form the subject of our Plate. 
Messrs. E. J. Henderson and Son, of the Wellington Road 
Nursery, have been the means of introducing this very desirable , 
flower to our greenhouses, the greater portion of the varieties 
having been obtained from the Continent. 
It will be at once seen, by a reference to our Plate, that they 
are very unlike in colour to the ordinary varieties of Carna¬ 
tions, although some varieties approach them very nearly, being 
regularly flaked, while others are as regularly picoteed. They 
are also very rough on the edge, as compared with florists’ 
flowers of the same class. 
We have found the following to be the best method of cul¬ 
tivation. As soon as the cuttings are struck, which should be 
about July or August, they should be potted off into small pots, 
in a good soil composed of loam and well-rotted manure and 
leaf-mould, in equal proportions, with a little road-grit, to keep 
it open; then gently watered, and placed in some cool place, 
either in the pot or out of doors. The flower-stems should be 
pinched off as soon as they appear, as we never allow them to 
flower during the first year, the object being to get them to 
make wood and to run up in a tree-like form. In the follow¬ 
ing spring we re-pot them into larger pots, and allow them to 
