History. 9 
be regarded as a reversion, whereby the colours be- 
come blended in one and equally diffused all over 
the petals. The process is akin to what gardeners 
term “sporting ” in Chrysanthemums. 
In Hogg’s time yellow Picotees were grown in 
Italy, Germany, Prussia, Flanders, and France, from 
whence they were constantly imported to this 
OLD “NGLISH YELLOW PICOTEE. 
(From Thomas Hogg’s “ Treatise on the Carnation,” 1824.) 
country by the nobility and gentry in _ their 
excursions, but did not live long. The Empress 
Josephine had a fine collection of this class at 
Malmaison. Our own Queen Charlotte and the 
Princesses had a splendid collection of yellow 
Picotees at Frogmore, procured chiefly from Ger- 
many. This type was, apparently, very much at 
