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markings on coloured grounds, and also those too 

 indistinctively or indefinitely marked on white 

 grounds to entitle them to a place among the class 

 flowers. 



Most familiar of all are the Selfs, the flowers of 

 one colour, embracing almost every tint but blue. 



It will probably be somewhat of a puzzle to the 

 novice when he happens to see for the first time 

 two very diflerent looking flowers — the one a more 

 or less splashed flower, rather suggestive of the 

 Bizarre or Flake Carnation, the other being the 

 edged flower described above — each going under 

 the title of " Picotee." 



The French word Picotee, meaning "pricked," 

 " spritted," or " spotted," describes the original type 

 of flower from which first our Bizarres and Flakes, 

 and much later — in fact, within living memory — 

 our present all but faultless Picotees have been 

 obtained. The actual process of evolution by 

 which our Bizarre and Flake Carnations and our 

 edged Picotees have been got, by select seeding 

 from the pricked and spotted flower, according as 

 the tendency has been shoAvn to longitudinal or 

 marginal marking, is now going on in the case of 

 the yellow-ground flowers, which, till lately neg- 

 lected by raisers, will doubtless be made in time 

 out of the same spritted and sjDotted forms to yield 

 us Bizarres and Flakes and edged Picotees, as has 

 already been done in the case of the white grounds. 



