278 CATALOGUE OF CARNATIONS AND PICOTEKS. 



the edge of the lamina, and gradually becoming narrower as they 

 approach the margins or base of the petal, there terminating in a fine 

 point ; each petal should have a due proportion of white, one half or 

 nearly so, which should be perfectly clear and free from spots. 



In the properties of the Carnation there is little, if any, difference 

 between the northern and southern florists; they are pretty well 

 agreed upon this variety of florists' flowers. 



In a scarlet bizarre, that is one in which the scarlet predominates, 

 every petal ought to have the three colours which constitute one, and 

 this not in a multitudinous number of small stripes, but bold ones. 

 The same in crimson or pink bizarres. In flakes, the stripes should 

 also be bold, and what is technically called ribboned, not a multitude 

 of small irregular stripes which only go down a short way in the petal, 

 but right through ; three stripes in a petal look much better than 

 four or five narrow ones ; some petals have only one of the flake 

 colour and one of white, but this is considered in judging defective, 

 because it cannot be said to stripe well, as would be the case of one 

 having too many. I am of opinion the class called Rose Flakes 

 ought to be subdivided into two classes, one to be called the Pink 

 Flakes, that is, one where the colour is weak ; and the other, Rose 

 Flakes, that is, where the colour is of a deep rose, for it cannot but be 

 admitted that if they are judged according to colour, the faint-coloured, 

 although it may ribbon as well, yet the faint colour will cause its 

 more favoured one to be preferred, because its colour is so much su- 

 perior. Having thus given the properties, I shall proceed at once 

 to the 



Scarlet Bizarres. 



Barrenger's Fire King. — Pod rather short and apt to burst, co- 

 lours bright, flowers not very large. 



Brooks' Harkaway. — Good pod and well formed petals, marks 

 well, flower not large. 



Bullock's Prince Le Boo. — Good pod, petals rather long, and defi- 

 cient in bizarre. 



Ely's Colonel Wainman. — Good pod and well-formed petals, rather 

 thin of them, marks well. 



Ely's Jolly Dragoon. — Good pod and well-formed petals, flower 

 largish, good colours, marks well. 



