216 ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE TINK. 



in a bursting Pink, after all the ill-spznt trouble in tying them, have 

 certainly a very different taste from me; I never saw one fit to he 

 seen ; the form is destroyed, the guard petals give way, and all is 

 confusion and ugliness. I am not an advocate either for very thin 

 flowers, with just two tier of petals. I would prefer one with three 

 or four tiers, provided it showed the eye distinct, and its surface was 

 inclined to flatness, &c. ; but I would rather have a Pink with even 

 two rows of petals and every other property, however " imperfect, 

 poor, flat-looking " a thing the 'Gardener' may call it, than a huge, 

 rough, and confused mass of colours, bundled together with a piece 

 of bladder-skin, without either order, colour, or shape. I consider 

 bursting a defect which ought to disqualify any flower. The best 

 criterion I can give of the sorts I should prefer, is Admiral Codring- 

 ton, which, in addition to every other necessary qualification, pos- 

 sesses also a considerable share of doubleness. Of course it requires 

 dressing to be fit for show, as well as every other sort, for there are 

 always a quantity of useless petals straggling about the centre, which 

 require extracting, save one small one to fill up the centre, and the 

 others made to fall back in order to their places. If I live till next 

 year, however, I will (with Mr. Harrison's permission) send up a 

 seedling for representation in the Cabinet as a specimen of what I 

 mean, and which I think, all possessed of taste and judgment, will 

 give in as far superior to the best of what Londoners now call their 

 Cracks and Nonpareils. 



[We shall be glad to receive the flower, and a correct represen- 

 tation shall be furnished in the Cabinet. It affords us much 

 pleasure to observe this very lovely flower is beginning to attract 

 more attention, and we believe it will, as it deserves, become general ; 

 its neatness and fragrance render it worthy a place in every flower- 

 garden. — Conductor.] 



ARTICLE VIII. 



DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. 



BY MR. JOHN SI.ATKK, VLORIST, PEACOCK 1IOUSK, CHATEI. LANE, CJIEETHAM Hit.!., 



NEAIt MANCHESTER. 



Preliminary Observations. 

 Some apology is necessary in intruding myself upon the notice of the 

 readers of the Floricultural Cabinet a second time in a descrip- 



