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of water, or wet sand. When placed in water, 

 a small piece of nitre should be added, and the 

 water should be changed every day, and a small 

 piece of the flower stalks cut off each time of 

 giving fresh water, which will prolong their fresh- 

 ness for a considerable length of time. It is as 

 common to see large vases filled with these flowers 

 in the retail shops of Paris during the summer 

 season, as it is to find fires in the London ware- 

 houses 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 mar- 

 kets more plentifully, we give what is now esteem- 

 ed the criterion of a fine Carnation, and then 

 notice the most approved manner of its culti- 

 vation. 



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 irregular stripes or spots. 

 Picotee is a corruption of the French, Piqiiettee, 

 pricked or spotted. These flowers are distin- 



