46 Select Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks. 
porting the interior petals, and altogether forming a © 
convex and nearly horizontal corolla. The interior 
petals should rather decrease in size as they approach 
the centre of the flower, which should be well filled 
with them. The petals should be regularly disposed 
alike on every side, imbricating each other 
in such a: manner that both their _respec- 
tive and united beauties may captivate the 
eye at the same instant; they should be nearly 
flat, however, a small degree of concavity, 
or inflection, at the broad end is allowable, but their 
edges should be perfectly entire, that is to say, free 
from fringe or indenture. The calyx should be at 
least one inch in length, terminating in broad points 
sufficiently strong to hold the narrow bases of the 
petals, in a close and circular body. | Whatever 
colours the flowers riay be possessed of, they should 
be perfectly distinct, and disposed in long, regular 
stripes, broadest at the edge of the lamina, and 
gradually becoming narrower as they approach the 
unguis' or base of the petal, there terminating in a 
fine point. Each petal should have a due proportion 
of white; that 1s, one-half or nearly so, which should 
be perfectly clear and free from spots.” 
The Cambridge Horticultural Society, in 1834, 
had a standard drawn up for various florists’ flowers 
including Bizarre and Flake Carnations and 
Picotees. In the case of Carnations the definitions 
did not differ from those laid down by Don, but their 
description of Bizarres and Flakes shows that the 
rules apply to this section at the present day. It is 
as follows:— 
“Bizarres should have three colours in every 
petal, Flakes two, colours strong and bright, the 
fewer freckles or spots the better, all the colours 
nearly equal, or the most brilhant colour should pre- 
dominate, the white pure and bright.” 
Picotees were governed by the same rules as to 
the size, shape, build, and quality of the flowers. 
They were still in the transition stage as in Hogg’s 
time, but more advanced, as the following sentence 
shows:—“ Those flowers which are free from blotch 
or stripe down the petal below the coloured edging 
are greatly to be preferred to those which are marked 
and pouncy.” These definitions were published in 
the floricultural Cabinet for 1834. 
In 1849, the Rev. George Jeans gave a series of 
essays on the “ Philosophy of Florists’ Flowers” in 
