21S FLORICUI.TURAL GLEANINGS. 



and profusion of blossoms being alike admirable. In our Number for 

 August we inserted particulars of the specimens exhibited, and 

 whoever obtains similar ones will be amply repaid for the attention 



ARTICLE II. 



FLORICULTURAL GLEANINGS, No. 8. 



DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON A FEW ADDITIONAL PICOTEES. 



BY MR. WILLIAM H.UUUSON, SECRETARY TO THE FELTON FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



The season of flowers is again fast wearing past us, and out of the 

 charms of our carnation and picotee beds little remains but a few 

 ■ diminutive lateral blooms, to remind us of the beauties that are 

 now gone and the contests are now past. They have pleased us with 

 the brilliancy of their varied beauties, but their season of splendour 

 is now over, and they are again departing from our eyes. Such is 

 nature — such is human life — such is the ephemeral duration of all 

 our earthly enjoyments. 



But the observing florist will not have allowed the season to pass 

 over him without making some additions to his floricultural know- 

 ledge. Another year's experience will have made him a better prac- 

 tical florist, and the new flowers that he has grown, or that have been 

 grown, in his neighbourhood, will have given him an opportunity of 

 recording the merits of some varieties, and the worthlessness of 

 others. The former he will nurse with almost a parent's care, to pre- 

 pare for his increased enjoyments the next season, while the latter 

 will be discarded as mere cumberers of the ground. Those who have 

 opportunities of visiting large collections when in bloom will perhaps 

 be spared this, but the country florist, who is glued to his home, his 

 garden, and his fireside, has few opportunities of doing this, and not 

 unfrequently buys from report only, and sometimes finds, to his 

 mortification, that only a part of his new stock is any acquisition to 

 him. " Descriptive remarks " will in some degree obviate this, and 

 if those which follow on a few picotees are worthy of insertion in the 

 Cabinet, I shall be glad to see them inserted in an early Number. 



It should always be borne in mind, however, that a flower well 

 grown, and the same variety grown only weak, are very different 

 things ; indeed Mr. Hogg, I think it is, observes that there is as 



