10 THE CARNATION MANUAL. 



wHch they can be regulated, and suggest no 

 processes by which they can be affected, I must 

 leave amateurs to gain their own experience in 

 this field of Flora's fair domain. 



Nature and art combined will provide for the 

 patient worker an inexhaustible series of Avonders 

 beyond my poor pen to describe. 



Before leaving this part of my subject, however, 

 I must give a few details of my experience with 

 the pure " yellow ground " Picotees. 



The Yellow Carnation and Picotee are doubt- 

 less accidental productions from the -white ground 

 varieties. (See separate Chapter on Yellow Car- 

 nation and Picotees.) 



Seedlings raised from them revert back to the 

 white ground, but we never get yellow ground 

 varieties from our white ground seedlings. Such, 

 at least, is my experience — extending now over 

 many years. 



From about six hundred plants, flowered in one 

 year from the best yellow ground Picotees, I was 

 greatly surprised to find a large number with 

 white grounds ; many deep rose, rosy red, maroon 

 and scarlet selfs — two of them are now in cul- 

 tivation as " King of Scarlets " and " Ruby." 



I was also told by a friend the other day that 

 last year he saw a large bed of seedlings entirely 

 raised from the yellow variety "Pride of Pens- 

 hurst," and it presented every shade of colour but 



