I do not strike my carnation cuttings so early as is customary. I find April struck plants answer all purposes as well as those rooted earlier. I arrange a cutting bed by putting a layer of good potting soil at the bottom, two inches deep; on top of this one and a half inches of sand. My bench for carnations is behind the boiler; over the boiler is the propagating bed for other plants; the part for carnations is the coolest one. The cuttings are rooted in this bed, and not disturbed until time to plant out of doors. They root in ten to fifteen days, and the roots soon penetrate the sand to the good soil beneath. This mode saves time and valuable space in greenhouse. Carnations do not grow much until the cool nights of August and September come, so that April rooted plants do as well as those rooted in the earlier months, and I think are better winter bloomers. I am raising for my own use 10,000 plants this season.