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inside. It is not a remontant, and yet it forces well. 



The Marguerite type is remarkable because it 

 blooms the first year, sometimes in five or six months 

 from seed. It is a half -dwarf Italian class, with fra- 

 grant, mostly double fringed flowers, of rather thin 

 substance, and inclined to be tender when young. 



Perhaps the most serviceable classification which 

 we can make for the present purpose is to divide 

 carnations into five large and somewhat ill -defined 

 groups : 



1. The Grenadins or perfume carnations. 



2. The Border Carnations, comprising a great 

 variety of hardy sorts, much used for outdoor 

 cultivation. 



3. The Malmaisons. 



4. The Marguerites. 



5. The Forcing or Bench Carnations. 



In each of these groups there are many varieties, 

 and new ones are constantly appearing ; yet per- 

 haps the best way that I can impress upon you the 

 fact of the marvelous variation of the carnation 

 plant, is to say that all the four hundred and twenty 

 carnations which are now recorded in America belong 

 to but one of these groups — the forcing varieties. 

 With the exception of a few Marguerites, practically 

 the only class of carnations known in this country 

 is these forcing sorts, so that the very word car- 

 nation has come to mean a greenhouse pink. In 

 England, on the other hand, the word, if used with- 

 C "'••"-9ut qualification, refers to the border group, and it 

 '^^^ ^^ ^iir only when one speaks of perpetual or tree carna- 

 r^^ K' ti6fes^ that these greenhouse kinds are understood. 

 '*. 'V Tfifs peculiarity of vocabulary is very suggestive. 



