200 CARNATIONS. 
thofe who are not fufficiently attentive 
to the ripening of their feed, are apt to 
gather it too foon, before it is perfeflly 
matured, in confequence of which, the 
greatefl part proves fmall, pale coloured, 
and unproduftive. 
Thofe plants which have flood three or 
four weeks upon the flage, under the 
cloth covering, whilfl in bloom, feldom 
produce any feed at all, or but very 
little : neither do fuch as are entirely 
expofed to the weather; becaufe in this 
cafe the rains and night dews that occa- 
fionally happen, keep the bafes of the 
petals, furrounding the pericarpium, con¬ 
tinually moifl; the confequences of which 
are a mouldinefs and decay. 
The feed, when gathered, fhould re¬ 
main in the pericarpium, in a dry room, 
till the beginning or middle of May; 
it is then to be fown in pots, filled with 
the 
