24 Select Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks. 
IV—DEFINITION OF THE CLASSES i@F 
CARNATIONS. 
I. Show Carnations are limited to those having 
broad stripes or flakes of one or two colours on a 
white ground, and running from apex to base of the 
blade of the petals. They are subdivided into 
Bizarres with two, and Flakes with one, colours 
on a white ground. 
Bizarres are again divided into scarlet, crimson, 
pink, and purple varieties according to their principal 
colour; and Flakes may be purple, scarlet or rose. 
II. Picotees or White-Ground Picotees merely 
differ from show Carnations in the arrangement of 
their colours in a line round the outer edge of the 
petals. They are divided into red, purple, rose, and 
scarlet edged Picotees. These are again sub- 
divided into /zght or wire edged, medium, and heavy 
edged according as the marginal line is narrow, 
medium or wide. 
III. Border Carnations may include any class of 
sufficiently hardy constitution to live, thrive, and 
bloom in the open air or border. 
Flowers of one uniform or self-colour are most 
universally popular for outdoor or border culture. 
More recently yellow, and yellow ground Carnations 
and Picotees of vigorous constitution have been 
pressed into the service. Show Carnations and 
Picotees are often grown for border decoration. 
IV. Yellow and YVellow-Ground Carnations 
and Picotees may be of any shade of yellow, the 
darker the better, self, striped, lined or flaked with 
other colours in a variety of ways. 
They are selfs when the colour is uniform. They 
are termed fancy yellow-ground Carnations when 
striped with two or more colours, or when densely 
lined or marked all over the yellow-ground. Yellow- 
ground Picotees have an edging of scarlet, crimson, 
or rose, either light or heavy. The varieties that 
have reached this ideal of perfection are not yet 
very numerous. Many of the  yellow-ground 
Picotees, still allowed to pass muster, are more or 
less striped or lined. with other colours and the line 
of demarkation between them and the fancy yellow- 
ground Carnations is arbitrary and of convenience. 
