99 PICTORIAL PRACTICAL CARNATION GROWING. 
In seedlings there is great profusion of bloom, grand for cutting ; 
while not a few will have merit worthy of perpetuation under 
special names. All gladden the eye by their exquisite beauty and 
variety of colour. The far-seeing will reflect on the possibility of 
a reversion of the yellow ground to the white ground from which 
it probably sprang, and wait for seedlings from white ground 
varieties to give a yellow ground form with silver or white beneath. 
Certain points in Chapters I. and II. are commented on by Mr. 
James Douglas as follows : 
“T quite agree with a good deal of what is said. As I have 
grown and exhibited the Carnation for over thirty years, | may be 
allowed to add a little of my own knowledge to it. 
“The first remark that caught my eye is towards the end of 
Chapter I., ‘So far from the fertiliser’s work being nearly complete, 
it is only beginning.’ There is no finality in gardening, and the 
florist’s motto ought to be ‘Onward! ever onward.’ But to say 
that the work is only beginning is not very complimentary to those 
who have given the best part of their life to this work. 
“Tet us look for a moment at the work of the florists for the last 
hundred years or more. The Flake and Bizarre varieties had 
obtained as high a point of perfection in the year 1787 as they have 
at the present day. At that date a Mr. Franklin cultivated and 
raised Carnations from seed near London (Lambeth Marsh). One of 
his seedlings is figured in the first volume of the Botanical Magazine. 
IT examined the coloured plate of this Carnation, named Franklin’s 
Tartar (it is a scarlet Bizarre), with my old friend Mr. Simonite a few 
years ago, and in comparing it with the best we had, we decided 
that this Bizarre, raised 124 years ago, was at least equal to any now 
CROSS FERTILISATION. FIG. 8 (NEXT PAGE).—SHOW 
FORM OF PICOTEE. 
C, bloom of a light edged Picotee, as cut from the plant: 7, stem; s, 
leaves or “‘grass”; ¢, flower stalk; ~, guard or outer petals, with a 
clear ground colour (white) and a well defined edge of a contrasting 
colour; v, inner petals, gradually diminishing in size towards the 
centre; w, eye, clear; x, styles and stigmas of pistil, coloured at the 
tips. 
D, flower C after removing petals: y, basal bracts; 2, calyx or pod not split; 
a, stamens, with bold, pollen laden anthers; J, styles; ¢c, stigmas, more 
or less feathered, to which pollen should be applied. 
E, flower bud at the stage for close emasculation: d, basal bracts; e, pod 
or calyx; jf, petals; yg, point of cutting through the basal bracts, 
calyx, petal claws, and stamen filaments in order to remove all those 
parts above the incision. 
Pollen, magnified, 
