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up a plant attacked by it, you will be certain to find one or more 

 adhering to it, though I never saw it attack a plant above ground. 

 They appear to me to like moisture, and whatever I may apply to the 

 beds, I shall put a little Calais sand round the stom of each plant 

 when I plant it. J. Riley. 



Birkley, near Huddersfield, Oct. 30. 



CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. 



Those who are in the habit of attending floricultural exhibitions, 

 and choosing for themselves, will hardly thank us for the following 

 lists of flowers, which they may have seen over and over again ; but 

 there are others living in obscure corners of our island, whose love of 

 floriculture is equally ardent with that of our metropolitan florists, to 

 whom a list of Carnations and Picotees, which would give about half- 

 a-dozen of the most strikingly distinct first-rate varieties in each of 

 the several classes of Scarlet Bizarre, Purple or Crimson Bizarre, 

 Scarlet Flake, Purple Flake, Rose or Salmon Flake ; Red Picotee, 

 Purple Picotee, and Rose or Salmon Picotee, Would be of great ad- 

 vantage, and for such the following lists have been prepared. Such 

 growers seldom have an opportunity of making a selection from 

 plants in bloom, and the usual catalogues afford little or no assist- 

 ance to the amateur, whose object is, to combine well- contrasted va- 

 riety with excellence. The distinctive character is in many sorts so 

 very minute, that such varieties are frequently rather cumberers of the 

 ground than acquisitions in a private collection. 



CARNATIONS. 



SCARLET BIZARRES. 



Brutus (Collcutt's). 

 Admiral Curzon (Easom's). 

 Grand Master (Holliday's). 

 Lord Ranclitfe (Holliday's). 

 Omnium Primus (Kay's). 

 Splendid (Martin's). 



CRIMSON BIZARRES. 



Count Pauline (Holmes'). 



Edgar ( May's). 



Great Britain (Ely's). 



Lord Milton (Ely's). 



T. Sharp, Esq. (Holliday's). 



Thomas Hewlet (Holliday's). 



PINK AND PURPLE BIZARRES. 



Lady of the Lake (Pond, alias Hales). 

 Prince Albert (Pux lev's). 

 Princess Royal (Sealy's). 

 Queen Victoria (Smith's). 

 Sarah Payne (Ward's). 



PURPLE FLAKES. 



Beauty of Woodhouse (Mansley's). 



Earl Spencer ( Barrenger's). 



Lord Byron (Taylor's). 



Premier (Millwood's). 



Queen of Purples (Holliday's). 



Vernon Smith (Holliday's). 



SCARLET FLAKES. 



Bishop of Gloucester (Brown's). 

 Firebrand (Hard wick's). 

 Hero of Middlesex (Willmer's). 

 King of Scarlets ( Ely's). 

 Lydia (Addenbrook's). 

 Queen Victoria (Simpson's). 



ROSE FLAKES. 



Ariel (May's). 

 Flora's Garland (Brooks'). 

 Lady Ely (Ely's). 

 Lorenzo (May's) 

 Lovely Ann (Ely's). 

 Princess Royal (Puxley's). 



