112 description of carnations. 



or two on the same subject, and in like manner pass my opinion on 

 Piccotees, Heartsease, Ranunculuses, and other Florists' flowers. 



Pensee. 

 [We shall feel grateful for the favour, such articles being- very much 

 wanted by the readers in general of the Cabinet, many applications 

 have been made to us by subscribers — Conductor-] 



cartwright's rainbow {crimson bizard.) 

 This flower is, perhaps, as well or better known than any other 

 Carnation, can never become common from its shyness in pro- 

 ducing grass and propensity to run from colour on the latter ac- 

 count, I have no doubt many plants are constantly thrown out, 

 though in future I would recommend this never to be done, as I 

 believe it possesses a property known in no other bizarse, viz. 

 of returning to colour : two or three instances of this had come to 

 my knowledge when I happened to mention it to one of our first 

 growers, who stated that he had made the same remark, and added 

 that if the flower did not run into a perfect self, he believed it in- 

 variably came into colour the following season. The Rainbow is 

 a large flower, very fine in shape, good in each colour, and almost 

 unequalled in the white. 



Fletcher's duchess of Devonshire, (scarlet bizard.) 

 The only fault, and one which cannot but be admitted, is its 

 want of size, in every other respect, in colour, in shape and sub- 

 stance of the petal (in my opinion, a great desideratum) and in the 

 general shape of the flower, it is equal to any in its class : it is very 

 generally grown and as generally admired 



(wakefield's paul pry, c. b.) 

 This is a higher coloured flower than the Rainbow, but is seldom 

 as large, though a general good bloomer, yet wanting the splendid 

 guard leaves and size of the Rainbow, can never demand compari- 

 son. 



WILSNES'S DEFIANCE, (purplt ', flakt '. ) 



Is a large flower, good in colour, but occasionally deficient in 

 the stripe, or rather the stripe is not equally spread over the 

 bloom, one petal having too much, whilst another is wanting. Yet 

 I have sometimes seen this flower so very fine, that I should con- 

 sider a collection deficient without it 



(To be continued.) 



