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Franklin’s Tartar- 
A Scarlet Bizarre Carnation. 
The Carnation here exhibited is a feedling raffed by 
Mr. Franklin, of Lambeth-Marfh, an ingenious cultivator 
of thefe flowers, whofe name it bears : we have not figured 
it as the molt perfebt flower of the kind, either in form or 
fize, but as being a very fine fpecimen of the fort, and one 
whofe form and colours it is in the power of the artift pretty 
exaftly to imitate. 
The Dianthus Caryophyllus or wild Clove is generally con- 
fidercd as the parent of the Carnation, and may be found, it 
not in its wild flate, at leaft Angle, on the walls of Rochefter 
Caflle, where it has been long known to flourifh, and where 
it produces two varieties in point of colour, the pale and 
deep red. 
Flowers which are cultivated from age to age are continually 
producing new varieties, hence there is no ftandard as to 
name , beauty , or perfection, amonglt them, but what is perpe- 
tually flu&uating ; thus the red Hulo , the blue Hulo , the greatejl 
Granado, with feveral others celebrated in the time ot 
Parkinson, have long fince been configned to oblivion; 
and it is probable, that the variety now exhibited, may, in a 
few years, fharc a fimilar fate; for it would be vanity in us to 
fuppofe, that the Carnation, by affiduous culture, may not, in 
the eye of the Florift, be yet confiderably improved. 
To fucceed in the culture of the Carnation, we mull ad- 
vert to the fituation in which it is found wild, and this is 
obferved to be dry and elevated ; hence exceflive moifture is 
found to be one of the greateft enemies this plant has to en- 
counter ; and, on this account, it is found to fucceed better, 
when planted in a pot, than in the open border ; becaufe in 
the former, any fuperfluous moifture readily drains off; but, 
in guarding againft too much wet, we mult be careful to avoid 
the oppofite extreme. 
To keep any plant in a ftate of great luxuriance, it is ne- 
ceffary that the toil in which it grows be rich; hence a mixture 
of light loam, and perfectly rotton horfe or cow dung, in equal 
proper- 
