CARNATIONS. 
*99 
After the above is performed, the 
covers may remain, or be taken away 
at pleafure ; but in the latter cafe it is 
advifable to loofen the upper part of 
the Hems from the flicks, that the open 
end of the calyx may incline a little 
downwards, the more effeflually to pre¬ 
fer ve it in a dry ftate: the ftems fhould 
not be buffered to hang fo loofe as to be 
in danger of breaking off with every 
puff of wind. 
It is rather difficult to obtain any 
confiderable quantity of fine Carnation 
feed, from a moderate colleflion of 
plants : which thofe who make the at¬ 
tempt will often find to be the cafe. 
The feed ripens from the end of 
Augufl to the beginning of October: 
the pericarpium becomes brown, dry, 
and hard, and the feed, when ripe, is 
of a black, or very dark brown colour; 
3 thofe 
