132 THE CARNATION MANUAL. 



perhaps the best, or at least one of the best culti- 

 vators of the Carnation in England. 



There are but few people in Ireland nowadays 

 who grow the Carnation as a show flower, but 

 you see them in beds and borders in every garden 

 just as you do in southern England. The sweet 

 AVhite-fiinged and Pheasant-eyed Pinks are also 

 here largely gro^vn for their fragrant flowers. 



At Rosanna, a fine old country house in Co. 

 Wicklow, surrounded by splendid native and exotic 

 timber, there is a large sweep of lawn, and two long 

 borders extend down beside a broad walk from the 

 front door. The borders are full of early bulbs of 

 all kinds, but the long and broad rows of old- 

 fashioned A^Hiite Pinks are something to see and 

 remember when in flower. Behind them are great 

 masses of the best French or Herbaceous Peonies, 

 and I still remember the delight of Mr. Dewar of 

 Kew when he and Mr. Frederick Moore and my- 

 self saw them in all their glory, and inhaled their 

 delicious fragrance one de^vy, sunny Sunday morn- 

 ing of last summertide. 



It is not easy to overplant a garden mth these 

 sweetest and shapeliest of flowers. AVhat we want 

 are good, free, healthy sorts, clear selfs of good 

 sound colours, and then, as seen by the hundred or 

 the thousand, they are a sight never to be forgotten. 

 Any variety that bleaches, as some do badly, should 

 be discarded. We can never equal the efl'ect these 



