that more air may be admitted, and when they become tolerably well rooted, the glasses being no longer necessary, should be entirely taken away; but it seldom happens that all the plants, under the same glass, strike root together: some are generally a few days or a week forwarder than the rest, as will be apparent by their superior growth and verdure; such ought to be carefully taken up and planted in a small pot, for winter preservation, or they may be planted round the sides of large Carnation pots, filled with the compost, where they will soon make rapid progress: the remaining plants which are not sufficiently rooted for removal, must be continued under the glasses, as before directed, till they become so."-Flo. Direct. Mr. Hogg considers that piping should commence sooner than laying, before the shoots get hard and woody; he begins about the first of July. Plants raised from pipings he considers as sounder, and more likely to encounter the rigours of a sharp winter, than layers. The pots recommended by Maddock for flowering plants, should be at least twelve inches wide at the top, six inches at the bottom, and ten inches deep in the inside. Hogg uses pots of twelve or sixteen to the cast, being smaller than those recommended by Maddock. According to the advice of Maddock, "the pot ting should commence about the middle of March, if the weather is not extremely unfavourable; but it should not, on any account, be deferred later than the end of that month. The pot is, in the first place, to be half filled with compost, having an oyster-shell, with its hollow side downwards, placed over the hole in the centre of the bottom: this compost is to be higher at the sides than in the centre of the pot; and the plants intended for it, which are supposed to have been wintered in small pots, containing four plants each, are to be carefully turned out of their pots, with all the earth adhering to them, in a ball; and after rubbing off about half an inch of the surface of the old mould, round about the plants, above their fibres, cleaning them and cutting off the decayed points of their leaves, the ball is to be carefully placed in the centre of the pot, and the space between it and the sides filled up with the prepared compost. "It is very necessary to be attentive in placing the plants, that they be neither planted deeper nor shallower than they were before; the compost should therefore be high enough to replace the old earth that was rubbed off on potting, exactly to the same height as before, i. e., half an inch higher than the ball of old earth and fibres, and the whole surface of the earth in the pot, when the operation is finished, should be nearly level or flat; but by no means higher in the centre than the sides, because the plants would thereby be kept too dry; nor should the compost come nearer than within an inch of the top or rim of the pot, after it has been gently shaken, or struck against the ground on finishing, as an inconvenience will attend its being too full, when the operation of laying comes to be performed, which requires some additional mould on the surface, for the layers to strike into." When the plants are thus potted off for bloom, the pots should be placed in an open airy part of the garden, under a frame of small iron rods or hoops, that they may be covered with mats in case of frosty nights or heavy rains, but at all other times they should be kept open to the air, and frequently watered with soft water from a fine-rosed watering-pot, giving them more frequent waterings just as they begin to flower, paying at the same time attention to the flower-stems as they advance, which must be supported with small sticks, to prevent their being broken by the wind. The pots of Carnations should not be housed too early, as the first frosts of the autumn are not so dangerous to them as those of the spring, after they have become tender by housing; and during the winter the waterings should be very moderate. Those who have spare frames may protect them as recommended for the Auriculas. 9 The Clove Pink and the Picotée Carnation, being of a hardier nature than other Carnations, are able to stand the frost of moderate winters, and are therefore desirable for the open garden; but even these we should recommend to be planted in clumps of eight or ten plants each, as, in case of excessive rains or very severe frosts, they may be easily protected by a slight frame formed of poles, and covered with mats. Carnations when in flower are generally displayed on stages; but as our object is more to embellish the flower-garden than the stage, we recommend that when the plants are in flower the pots should be disposed in clumps in such parts of the borders as may shew them to the best advantage, and at the same time where other plants will hide the sight of the pots. By this means many spots may be enlivened where the earlier flowers have altogether disappeared, and more particularly in situations near the windows of the dwelling, or contiguous to the walks of the principal entrance, as their fragrance is of too agreeable a nature to be wasted in solitary parts of the garden but seldom visited,for the Carnation seems a flower Not to delight thine eye alone design'd, But touch, and calm, and elevate the mind. Natural Order Multisilique. Ranunculacea, Juss., (but now removed to the family Helleborus by the French Botanists.) A Genus of the Polyandria Digynia Class. There might ye see the Piony spread wide. Cowper. THE glowing grandeur of this flower, which is so attractive in our rustic gardens, seems to make it reign empress over the floral tribe of humble parterres, and to possess a kind of dignity which almost forbids the youthful hand to pluck it; yet how few of the young admirers of nature's gayest works have not desired to possess a full-blown Peony to embellish their juvenile garden. Scenes of my youth! ye stand array'd The verdure of the ancient grove- The dim secluded waterfall. The Retrospect. In the emblematical language of flowers, the |