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masses or rows of one self-coloured kind give if we 

 grow too many spotted, splashed, and streaked 

 sorts, and mix them higgledy-piggledy together. 



I shall not say anything as to varieties, as the 

 best kinds will be amply descanted upon by those 

 wdio understand them ; but I should like to say a 

 word in praise of that now nearly discarded section 

 of Carnations called " Painted Ladies," otherwise 

 the " Dainty Ladies " of dear old John Parkinson's 

 " Paradisus," a work all lovers of this real old- 

 fashioned flower should read. In that fine old 

 folio it is called " Master Tuggy his Dainty Ladye," 

 and is therein described as having red-flushed 

 florets, white behind, the characteristic trait of all 

 the several forms. We grow two kinds in the 

 College Gardens. One we call our own, it having 

 been given to me as a seedling raised in Dublin by 

 Mr. John Somers, of Leeson Park, who was a most 

 successful grower of Carnations on the good old 

 florist's lines. It has long, stout, and erect grass, 

 and bears about three flowers on a stoutish stem, 

 these being large and very clear in colour, a sort of 

 rosy vermilion laid on a white ground. The florets 

 are fringed, and the fresh flowers are deliciously 

 clove-scented. Unfortunately the plant is rather 

 delicate, and it suffers from eel-worm, and seems 

 specially sought out by the w^ire-worm as w^ell ; but 

 it is worthy of good culture for the sake of its 

 unique colour and exquisite odour. 



