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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[October, 
beyond thinning out the young plants. They 
require no staking nor tying, nor watering, when 
grown in the open border. They will grow 
and flower freely in almost any garden soil, 
but the flowers will be larger and finer when 
they are grown in well-enriched soil. These 
Chrysanthemums ought to be more generally 
known and more extensively grown, being so 
showy and so easy of culture.—M. Saul, 
Stourton Castle, Yorkshire. 
TREE CARNATIONS. 
f HESE are undoubtedly amongst the 
most useful plants that can be grown, 
£^75 particularly where cut flowers are 
always in requisition. The true per¬ 
petual-flowering varieties are very profuse 
bloomers, and by judicious management they 
can be had in flower throughout the year. 
Not only has this charming class of Carna¬ 
tions become very popular, but great additions 
have been made to the old varieties, which 
have also been vastly improved upon. Mr. 
Turner has recently raised a great number of 
very fine seedlings, many of which are ex¬ 
ceedingly beautiful, of good dwarf habit, and 
of fine quality; several of them have been 
exhibited and received First-class Certificates. 
Having said thus much about their present 
status, a few brief practical hints respecting 
their treatment may be useful. To obtain 
good-sized strong plants for flowering at the 
present time, and during the winter months, 
the cuttings should be struck in January or 
early in February. Another lot of cuttings 
should be put in about the end of March. 
This will give plants of different ages, which 
will greatly assist in keeping up a succession 
of blossoms. The cuttings should be potted off 
as soon as they are rooted into small GO-sized 
pots, using a compost of two parts good turfy 
loam, one part old rotten manure, with a little 
peat and coarse sand. The young plants as 
soon as they have sufficiently drawn root, 
should have the hearts pinched out; this will 
cause them to produce a shoot from every 
joint. Re-pot them as often as they require 
it, and supply them sufficiently with water, so 
as to keep them in a growing state. They 
should be sheltered under glass till the end of 
May, when they may be placed out of doors 
till early in September, after which they should 
be put in a cold house, allowed plenty of air, 
and kept clean from green fly. 
Some of the early-struck plants will now be 
coming into bloom. A little very weak manure 
water may be used for these, but it is better 
to make the soil rather rich than to give them 
too much strong liquid, as this is no doubt 
the cause of some persons losing so many 
plants. As the number of varieties now is 
rather considerable, I shall confine my list to 
a few of the very best:— 
Rufus : rich scarlet, very bright, large full fine- 
formed flower. 
Juliette : deep rose, fine smooth petal, large full 
flower, good habit. 
Conqueror : salmon rose, slightly striped with 
purple; large full and distinct. 
Field Marshal : deep scarlet, large full finely- 
shaped flower, good dwarf habit. 
Egyptian : dark maroon, large and full, very 
fine. 
Mrs. Llewelyn : bright rose, large full finely- 
formed flower, and good dwarf habit. 
Luke of Albany : deep rich scarlet, large full 
and of fine form. 
Fire King : pale yellow ground with heavy 
scarlet edge. 
Premier: bright crimson, large and full, good 
dwarf habit. 
Burgundy : dark maroon, large and very free. 
Enchantress : deep pink flaked with dark purple, 
large and good. 
Whipper-in : scarlet, with very dark stripes, 
large full flower, very profuse blooming, good robust 
habit. 
Flambeau : buff ground heavily edged with deep 
red, large and full. 
Ruby-, crimson purple, large full flower, quite 
distinct. 
Seraph : a beautiful deep rose, large and mode¬ 
rately full, good dwarf habit. 
Yellow perpetuals are the most' scarce. 
Mrs. George Hawtrey is the brightest and 
the best; Andalusia is larger, but pale and 
very serrated. Good Whites are also scarce ; 
in this class, The Queen, which is the best, is 
very fine ; L’Hermine is very good, but not of 
good habit; La Belle, although an old 
variety, should still be grown; Gloire de 
Nancy (or White Malmaison) is a fine large 
full flower, pure white and very sweet scented, 
but is nut really a perpetual flowering variety. 
—J. Ball, Slough. 
ADIANTUM DOLABRIFORME. 
f rOR many years this Brazilian fern was 
l 3 mixed up by scientific pteridologists 
' with the old Aclianturn lunulatum. It 
is, however, essentially distinct, being 
of strictly evergreen habit and continuous in 
growth, while the latter is deciduous, dying off 
