The Carnation is propagated by seeds, layers, and pipings; new varieties can only be raised from seed, which, however, is sparingly produced from good flowers, because the petals are so multiplied, as nearly to exclude the parts of the fructification essential to their production.

“The seed must be sown in April, in pots or boxes, very thin, and placed upon an East border.

“In July, transplant them upon a bed in an open situation, at about four inches asunder; at the end of August transplant them again upon another bed, at about ten inches asunder, and there let them remain till they flower:  shade them till they have taken root, and in very severe weather in winter, cover the bed with mats over some hoops.

“The following summer they will flower, when you must mark such as you like, make layers from, and pot them.” Ellis’s Gardener’s Pocket Calendar.

The means of increasing these plants by layers and pipings, are known to every Gardener.

Such as wish for more minute information concerning the culture, properties, divisions, or varieties, of this flower, than the limits of our Work will admit, may consult Miller’s Gard.  Dict. or the Florists Catalogues.

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Trillium Sessile.  Sessile Trillium.

Class and Order.

Hexandria Trigynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 3-phyllus. Cor. 3-petala. Bacca 3-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

TRILLIUM flore sessili erecto. Lin.  Syst.  Vegetab. p. 349.

PARIS foliis ternatis, flore sessili erecto. Gron. virg. 44.

SOLANUM triphyllum. Pluk. alm. 352. t. 111. f. 6. Catesb. car. t. 50.

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Of this genus there are three species, all of which are natives of North-America, and described by MILLER, in his Gardener’s Dictionary, where the genus is called American Herb Paris; but as the Paris and Trillium, though somewhat similar in the style of their foliage, are very different in their parts of fructification, we have thought it most expedient to anglicise Trillium, it being to the full as easily pronounced as Geranium, and many other Latin names now familiar to the English ear.

This species takes its’ trivial name of sessile, from the flowers having no foot-stalk, but sitting as it were immediately on the end of the stalk.

The figure here exhibited was taken from a plant which flowered in my garden last spring, from roots sent me the preceding autumn, by Mr. ROBERT SQUIBB, Gardener, of Charleston, South-Carolina, who is not only well versed in plants, but indefatigable in discovering and collecting the more rare species of that country, and with which the gardens of this are likely soon to be enriched.

It grows in shady situations, in a light soil, and requires the same treatment as the Dodecatheon and round-leav’d Cyclamen.  We have not yet had a fair opportunity of observing whether this species ripens its seeds with us:  though of as long standing in this country as the Dodecatheon, it is far less common; hence one is led to conclude that it is either not so readily propagated, or more easily destroyed.