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with a hole in the centre just large enough to admit the calyx 

 without much compressing, and with a cut extending from the 

 centre to the outside. On these cards the flower is preserved 

 in shape and form a long time, on these the petals are also 

 finely disposed, and the beauty of the Carnation displayed to 

 great advantage. 



When placed on the stage they should have the benefit of the 

 morning sun till about 9 o'clock, according to the intense heat 

 of its rays ; the same in the evening, with as much open expo- 

 sure to the air at all times, as may be allowed without injury to 

 the bloom. In winter Hogg preserves them in frames, in the 

 same manner as he recommends for auriculas. When he has 

 more plants than he can blow in pots, he plants them in beds 

 of the same compost used for the others, protecting them from 

 severe frosts and heavy rains, and in other respects treating 

 them in the same manner as if in pots. Hogg's Treatise. 



Criterion of a Jine double Carnation. The stem should be 

 strong, tall, and straight ; not less than 30 inches or more than 

 45 inches high ; the footstalks supporting the flowers should be 

 strong, elastic, and of a proportionate length. The flower 

 should be at least 3 inches in diameter, consisting of a great 

 number of large, well-formed petals, but neither so many as to 

 give it too full and crowded an appearance, nor so few as to 

 make it appear thin and empty. The petals should be long, 

 broad, and substantial, particularly those of the lower or outer 

 circle, commonly called the guard leaves, these should rise per- 

 pendicular about half an inch above the calyx, and then turn 

 off gracefully in an horizontal direction, supporting the interior 

 petals, and altogether forming a convex and nearly hemisphe- 

 rical corolla. The interior petals should rather decrease in 

 size as they approach the centre of the flower, which should be 

 well filled with them. The petals should be regularly disposed 

 alike on every side, imbricating each other in such a manner as 

 that both their respective and united beauties may captivate the 

 eye at the same instant ; they should be nearly flat, however, a 

 small degree of concavity or inflection at the broad end is 

 allowable, but their edges should be perfectly entire, that is to 

 say, free from fringe or indenture. The calyx should be at 

 least one inch in length, terminating in broad points sufficiently 

 strong to hold the narrow bases of the petals, in a close and 

 circular body. Whatever colours the flowers may be possessed 

 of, they should be perfectly distinct, and disposed in long, 

 regular stripes, broadest at the edge of the lamina, and gradually 

 becoming narrower as they approach the unguis or base of the 

 petal, there terminating in a fine point. Each petal should have 

 a due proportion of white ; i. e. one half or nearly so, which 

 should be perfectly clear and free from spots. 



Clove Pink, Carnation, and Picotee. Fl. June, Aug. England. 

 PI. 1 to 3 feet. 



53 D. SYLVE'STRIS (Jacq. coll. 1. p. 237. icon. rar. t. 82.) 

 stem branched or simple ; flowers solitary ; calycine scales 4, 

 very short, ovate, outer ones acute, inner ones bluntish ; 

 petals very broad, beardless, toothed ; leaves crowded, awl- 

 shaped, stifF. If. . H. Native on the Alps of Jura on rocks 

 and among stones. D. virgmeus, Sims. bot. mag. t. 1740. but 

 not of Lin. Perhaps this plant is the type of D. caryophyllus. 

 Stem bearing one or many flowers. Flowers deep red, scent- 

 less. 



Wild Pink. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1732. PI. \ to 1 foot. 



54 D. LONGICAU'LIS (Tenore, cat. 1819. p. 76.) stem panicled, 

 many-flowered, tufted ; flowers solitary ; calycine scales ovate, 

 all emarginate, cuspidate ; leaves linear-lanceolate, thickish, 

 glaucous. If.. H. Native near Naples. Flowers red? 



Long- stemmed Pink. Fl. July. Clt. 1820. PI. 1 to 2 ft. 



55 D. GRANDIFLORUS (Poir. diet. 4. p. 514.) stem? flowers 

 somewhat aggregate ; bracteas ovate, acute, one-half shorter 



than the tube. Tf.H. Native of Spain. Flowers red ? This 

 plant ought perhaps to be placed near D. corymbosus. 

 Great-flowered Pink. Fl. July, Aug. PI. 1 foot. 



56 MONADE'LPHUS (Vent. hort. eels. t. 39.) glaucous ; stem 

 panicled ; flowers solitary ; calycine scales 4, lanceolate, rather 

 pungent, spreading, shorter than the tube. I/ . H. Native of 

 the Levant. D. procumbens, Pers. ench. 1 . p. 494. Calyx 

 tapering. Ovary stipitate. Petals white, under surface cine- 

 reous, with purple margins. Filaments united at the base. 



Monadelphous Pink. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1800. PL 1 ft. 



57 D. BURCHB'HII (Ser. mss. and D. C. prod. 1. p. 359.) 

 stem branched ; flowers solitary ; calycine scales 4, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, very short, somewhat mucronate ; petals deeply serrated ? 

 leaves linear, awl-shaped, striated ; lower ones very numerous 

 and very long, those of the stems and branches are very short, 

 and scale-formed. "}/. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Burch. cat. pi. afr. aust. no. 2456. Flowers white. 



Burchell's Pink. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



58 D. EMARGINA'TUS (Ser. mss. and D. C. prod. 1. p. 359.) 

 stems tufted ? 1 or 2-flowered ; calycine scales very blunt and 

 very broad ; calyx short, striated, with bluntish lobes ; petals 

 emarginate, small, inside white, outside purple ; lower leaves 

 numerous, linear, flat, serrated. If. H. Native about Asty- 

 palea. 



Emarginate-ipeta\le& Pink. Fl. July, Aug. PL to |- foot. 



53 D. LIBOSCHITZIA'NUS (Ser. mss. and D. C. prod. 1. p. 

 360.) stem generally 1-2-flowered, glabrous ; calycine scales 4, 

 ovate, acuminate, a little shorter than the tube ; leaves straight, 

 awl-shaped, with scabrous margins. I/ . H. Native on rocks 

 in Armenia and Iberia. D. petraeus, Bieb. fl. taur. 1. p. 328. 

 suppl. p. 300. but not of Waldst. and Kit. D. bracteatus, herb. 

 Willd. ex Steven. There is a variety having the calycine scales 

 almost one-half shorter than the tube. Flowers rose-coloured, 

 beardless, about the size of the clove. 



Liboschitz's Pink. FL June, July. Clt. 1817, PL i foot. 



60 D. SYLVA'TICUS (Hoppe, in Willd. enum. 467.) stem pa- 

 nicled ? flowers solitary or somewhat corymbose ; calycine scales 

 ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 obsoletely 3-nerved, glabrous ; petals doubly toothed. Tf.H. 

 Native at Ratisbon. Flowers red? 



Wood Pink. Fl. June, Sept. Clt. 1815. PL 1 foot. 



61 D. CINNAMOMEUS (Sibth. and Smith, fl. graec. t. 400. 

 prod. 1. p. 287.) stem panicled or simple, branches 1 -flowered ; 

 calycine scales 4, rhomboid, very blunt and very short ; petals 

 emarginate, toothed ; leaves lax, bluntish. If. . H. Native on 

 heaths in Laconia, Asia Minor, Cyprus, and about Constanti- 

 nople. Petals beardless, white or flesh-coloured above, but of 

 a red or dark cinnamon colour beneath. 



Cinnamon- coloured Pink. Fl. June, Aug. PL 1 foot. 



62 D. POMERIDIA'NUS (Lin. spec. 1673.) stem branched ; 

 flowers solitary ; calycine scales ovate, acute, very short ; 

 petals emarginate or entire. If. H. Native of Palestine, 

 Smith, in Lin. soc. trans. 2. p. 300. Sal. par. lond. 57. D. 

 tricolor, Adam. Fisch. Petals pale yellow, with revolute sides, 

 lead-coloured on the under surface. The flowers of this plant, 

 as well as the following, opens at mid-day and closes about 10 

 at night. 



jjfterncon-fiowering Pink. FL June, Aug. Clt. 1804. PL 

 1 foot. 



63 D. LEPTOPE'TALUS (Willd. enum. 468.) stem branched ; 

 flowers solitary ; calycine scales 4, ovate, acute, very short, a 

 little awned, 2 outer ones very small ; petals lanceolate, narrow, 

 with entire revolute sides, sometimes a little 3-toothed ; leaves 

 awl-shaped, roughish. If.H. Native 1 of Caucasus. Sims, bot. 

 mag. t. 1739. D. pomeridianus, Bieb. fl. taur. 1. p.. 329. but not 

 of Lin. D. cretaceus, Adam. Petals white on the upper sur- 



