134 Select Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks. 
ousted from the smoky town, the Carnation dressed 
itself in its best garb. 
More recently the exhibition table has been 
graced with winning stands of Carnations grown at 
Streatham Hill. 
I have also witnessed healthy and_ vigorous 
Carnations in the Victoria Embankment Gardens at 
Charing Cross, and hkewise at Roehampton, both 
under glass and in the open. Old Cloves, selfs, 
fancies, and other Carnations, Pinks and hybrids 
of the Dianthus family, were grown in quantity for 
more than 20 years, by the Royal Horticultural 
Society at Chiswick, before relinquishing their 
gardens there. A more unlikely place for Carni- 
tions than Chelsea could scarcely be imagined, yet 
show Carnations, white and yellow ground Picotees, 
border and tree Carnations in great variety and con- 
siderable quantity have been grown with remark- 
able success for many years in that densely popu- 
lated part of London, and overgrown field of 
bricks and mortar. Highgate has long been a 
great centre for the popular flower: and fine beds of 
Marguerite Carnations have been bloomed in Fins- 
bury Park. Old Clove and other border Carna- 
tions also flourish in the open at Kew. Many 
first-class seedlings of show Carnations, which 
annually take prizes at the leading exhibitions, 
specially devoted to this flower, were raised 
by Dodwell, while still at’ Clapham. In the 
provinces again we are confronted with the fact 
that Mr. Simenite raised some of the finest existing 
varieties of Carnations in the smoky, filthy atmos- 
phere of Shefheld. The weavers and other artisans 
of Yorkshire and Lancashire have long been known 
as ardent cultivators of Carnations and _ other 
florists’ flowers. 
Harking back to the olden times one cannot 
overlook the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Tuggie, of 
Westminster, contemporaries of Gerard in 1597 and 
later, were the most noted florists of those days, and 
amongst other flowers grew a splendid collection of 
Carnations, where now there is scarcely. room to 
plant a greenhouse. Gerard also grew a collection 
of Carnations, including the yellow one, in his 
garden at Holborn, then a suburb of London. 
The Carnation in a wild or untended condition 
is also said to haunt the habitats of man, but that 
is merely because old walls and castle ruins furnish 
