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it vary very much : at the equator there are equal days and 
nights at all seasons ; at the poles one day and night in the 
course of the year; and there is much variety between these 
limits: in the intermediate latitudes the day predominates in 
the summer half-year, and the night in the winter, the difference 
becoming greater as the latitude is higher. In the extremes of 
hieh latitude, so far as a considerable number and variety of 
plants are concerned, the repose extends and becomes hyberna¬ 
tion or nearly a total suspension of vegetative action ; but this 
is not total, for the herbaceous plants grow a little under the 
snow, and winter is the growing season of many of the mosses 
and lichens. So also in the low r latitudes, and even in a con¬ 
siderable range of some soils and climates, there is a suspension 
of the action of many plants, but this does not extend to the 
whole anv more than in the polar regions. 
Editor. 
(to be continued.) 
WINTERING CARNATIONS. 
Sir, —I am not at all displeased with the remarks your corre¬ 
spondent “ Senex” has seen fit to make on the little article I sent 
you for the November number of your valuable work ; on the 
contrary, I am gratified that it has been the means of inducing 
him to give us his mode of management, the more especially as 
the subject is one of much interest to a large class of amateurs, 
and the more publicity there is given to the methods employed 
by private growers the better opportunity we have of improving 
on our own or our neighbour's plans. I should not have troubled 
you on this occasion, but that “ Senex” seems to have fallen 
into an error about the application of coal-ashes, which I recom r 
mended for placing the pots on when put away for the winter : 
it was far from my intention or meaning to advise their being 
afterwards mixed with the soil of the garden, or anything else, 
but simply as a material well calculated to drain off superfluous 
