. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. CoiiMOX Waxlflowxr. to three inches apart, placing two or three inches of the cutting in the ground, and merely the point left out. Should dry weather ensue, sprinkle overhead occasionally until the cuttings are established. If requii'ed in quantity for forming lines or patches in winter, the Cerastium should be di- ^•ided as already explained, and lined out in a shady place in good soil in ^lay or June. These midsum- mer cuttings or pieces will soon root and be ready for forming white patches or lines of great purity and beauty in October or November.
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. CoiiMOX Waxlflowxr. to three inches apart, placing two or three inches of the cutting in the ground, and merely the point left out. Should dry weather ensue, sprinkle overhead occasionally until the cuttings are established. If requii'ed in quantity for forming lines or patches in winter, the Cerastium should be di- ^•ided as already explained, and lined out in a shady place in good soil in ^lay or June. These midsum- mer cuttings or pieces will soon root and be ready for forming white patches or lines of great purity and beauty in October or November. The Cerastiums seed freely, but as this ex- hausts the plant and also renders the leaves less white, and they are so readily and largely in- creased by the means already pointed out, it is not desirable to allow them to ripen seeds. Thrift, or Sea-Pink. —This plant, the Armerta vulgaris of botanists, be- longs to the natural order of Leadwcrts [Plumhagi- nacece). Being a native of our own sea-shores, of the Scotch mountains, and other cold and elevated parts of Europe, it is one of the hardiest as well as the showiest of common garden plants. The white and pale red - coloured varieties of the species are frequently found wild, the former, however, being far more common than the latter. But neither of these is much grown in gardens, the red-flowered variety, Anneria coccinea, being so The common wild Thrift, however, is met with at times in old-fashioned gar- dens, and the white variety of the species is worth growing, as it is rather scarce under cultivation. They all flower about the same time, through June and July, and if the old flowers are cut off closely much more Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901. Londo
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