10 Select Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks. 
home in most of the gardens of Madeira about this 
time. 
Hogg was very partial to the white-ground 
Picotee, “pencilled and marked by the inimitable 
hand of Nature in her more sportive mood.” ~His 
remarks, however, seemed to forestall the Picotee of 
modern times, for some of his varieties had “the 
edges or extremity only of the flower leaves. . . . 
tinged and laced all round.” He catalogued 335 
named varieties of Carnations and Picotees which he 
said were the ’ choicest. in England; then he 
enumerates four French Carnations and 50 new 
varieties, which he considered first rate flowers, 
making 389 in all. An allegorical chapter devoted 
to a discussion of the merits of old and new 
varieties, showed that the florists of those days had 
a great partiality for old favourites, though some of 
them might come good only once in seven years. 
In 1834, Loudon mentions a tree Carnation with 
suffruticose stems, which could be trained to a wall 
or trellis toa height of sft. or Oft. A writer: in 
Hovey’s Magazine for 1862, quoting from The 
Gardeners Chronicle, supposes that the first tree 
Carnation made its appearance in 1822, but was 
neglected. _M. Chabaud, a Frenchman, finds that 
tree Carnations were cultivated at Ollioules, 
France, in 1750, under the name of Carnation 
Mahonnais. 
In 1834, the Cambridge Horticultural Society ap- 
pointed a sub-committee to formulate a standard of 
excellence to which all florists’ flowers should con- 
form. In the case of Bizarre and Flake Carnations 
the high water mark had already been reached and 
was well defined by Hogg, in his book, except that 
freckles and spots were denounced in those varieties 
that still possessed them. The wire edged Picotee 
was also a reality, but most of the named varieties 
were still spotted and marked in a great variety 
of ways. The refined condition of the modern 
Picotee may therefore be considered as_ having 
originated about 70 or 80 years ago. Its original 
range of variation was therefore greatly limited, and 
the inbreeding necessary to secure edged varieties 
only is no doubt responsible for the delicate con- 
stitution of a large number of the best modern 
varieties. The word Picotee, meaning painted, is 
now a misnomer, though originally very expressive 
from the time of Gerard to that of Hogg. 
