THE CARNATION MANUAL. 33 



'^ose out of "Fortune's Yellow," the too famous 

 " Beauty of Glazenwood." 



Behind the florists' plates of the past few 

 generations we have the pictures of the Dutch 

 flower-painters containing fine Carnations, well 

 gro^\TL and admirably drawn after nature. These 

 artists were not confused by any false ideal to 

 which they were to make the flower approach, and 

 so we have a true and precious record of what the 

 Carnation was in long past days. In these pictures 

 Ave generally see the finer striped and flaked kinds 

 given the first place. It is quite natural. Such 

 varieties are beautiful, and apt to strike people 

 the most; and in those days little consideration 

 had yet been given to the question of effect in 

 open gardens. In our own day this question 

 has been forced upon us in very unpleasant ways 

 by masses of crudely arranged, and not always 

 pretty, flowers, which we should improve upon ! 

 One of the aids in that improvement is the Carna- 

 tion in its pure and lovely colours — colours which 

 no other flowers possess. It would be a pity to 

 use these lovely colours only for "button-holes" 

 and for the house, when they are capable of aflbrding 

 us such splendid effects in our summer and autumn 

 gardens, in the days when people see and enjoy 

 their gardens most. 



Few people, up to the present, have had an 

 opportunity of seeing the fine and distinct eff'ect 



