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so very similar. It is scarcely necessary, therefore, to describe 

 " Prince Ernest " further. 



Hogg's Fox-hunter. 

 Fox-hunter is another most excellent scarlet flaked carnation. The 

 ground colour is a most beautifully pure white, and the stripes are of 

 a brilliant glittering scarlet, which gives it a most beautiful and 

 attractive appearance. It gets to an excellent size, with plenty of 

 well-formed petals to form a good high crown, and a good long pod 

 not likely to be a troublesome burster. It may, therefore, be con- 

 sidered one of the very best scarlet flakes that have yet been cultivated 

 in the north of England. 



Bijou de Claremont. 

 Bijou de Claremont is another very excellent carnation, and will 

 perhaps come most correctly under the denomination of a crimson 

 bizarre, the lighter colour being considerably darker than the scarlet 

 of many of the foregoing. It is very regularly and distinctly marked 

 with the darker colour, and gets to a very excellent size. It seems 

 a very vigorous grower, and a strong plant of it will bloom several 

 good flowers of a tolerable size, provided only one be left upon each 

 branch. The petals are well formed, and the pod long and not apt 

 to burst ; and I think that it may be considered as a variety which 

 may be generally cultivated with confidence. 



Bates's Lord Wellington. 

 Bates's Wellington is a weak purple flake, which I have never 

 seen cultivated to any degree of perfection. I have had it for two 

 or three years, and it has invariably presented a dirty dingy white 

 appearance, with light flakes of a pale purple. It is only a shyish 

 grower, and if it should get out of cultivation altogether, I do not 

 think the floricultural world would have any great reason to regret 

 the loss of it, as the ground might be much more profitably employed 

 by the presence of some of the more modern and more constant 

 varieties. 



The Pitman's Rising Sun. 

 This is another darkish crimson bizarre, and gets to a very large 

 size. It possesses petals of an excellent round form and a well- 



