CARNATIONS. 191 
Carnations are to be treated daring 
winter much like Auriculas ; with refpefl 
to the weather, they are feldom injured, 
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by a moderate dry froft, though it is 
fafer to defend them from too much of 
it: but it is very neceffary to caution 
againft covering them up clofe when 
the plants are wet, as they are, in that 
ftate, very liable to contract a deftrudtive 
mildew, if they have not the benefit of a 
free circulation of air; this mildew makes 
its firft appearance in purple fpots on the 
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foliage, which can only be cured or pre¬ 
vented from fpreading amongft the adja¬ 
cent plants, by cutting out the infefled 
part, or removing the pot, as foon as dis¬ 
covered, it being not improbable but that 
the diftemper is, in great meafure, owing 
to a very minute infeft, brought into 
exiftence by the fermentive warmth gene¬ 
rated at fuch times. Plants thus infedied 
have 
