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DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARNATION 



ups and downs, and' on the balance of things was making 

 progress. By the end of the seventeenth century very 

 large flowers in' numerous colors, some of them flaked and 

 edged, were in greatest favor, and the biggest bloom with 

 the best burst calyx, a Burster, was the most prized of alL 





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Dissection of a Double Flower — a Long Way from the 



FiVE-PETALLED PiNK 



If the calyx did not spHt the flower was a Whole Blower, 

 and the gardeners used to help matters along by sHtting 

 the calyx either with a penknife or scissors. This vogue 

 continued seeming!}', until the opening of the nineteenth 

 century. Phihp Miller in his " Gardeners' Dictionary," 

 in the middle of the eighteenth century, mentions it, and 

 advice as to sphtting occurs for half a century after that. 

 But the ideal form of the Carnation of those days was very 



