ga' FLORA HISTORICA. 



summer season, as it is to find fires in the London 

 warehouses during the winter months. The Red 

 Clove Pink is worn in France to distinguish the 

 liberal party. 



With a hope of seeing these flowers increased in. 

 our country gardens, so as to furnish our markets 

 more plentifully, we give what is now esteemed the 

 criterion of a fine Carnation, and then notice the 

 most approved manner of its cultivation. 



Modern florists divide these flowers into three 

 classes, Flakes, Bizarres, and Picotees. The Flakes 

 are so called from having two colours only, and 

 their flaky stripes going quite through the petals. 

 Bizarres are so named from the French word, which 

 signifies odd or fantastical. These kinds have not 

 less than three colours, and are variegated in irre- 

 gular stripes or spots. Picotee is a corruption of 

 the French Piquettee, pricked or spotted. These 

 flowers are distinguished by having a white ground, 

 pounced or spotted with purple, rose, red, or other 

 colours. These classes are again subdivided, as 

 Pink, Flakes, Scarlet Flakes, Purple Flakes, Yel- 

 low Flakes, &c., and the Picotees and Bizarres run 

 through the same changes almost to an endless 

 amount. Mr. Hogg, who published a treatise on 

 the Carnation in 1820, gives a catalogue of about 

 three hundred and fifty sorts, so arranged and 

 named after some great personages, all of which 



