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from existing coloured plates of contemporary flowers 

 that a show variegated, they were designated Carnation 

 was essentially as it is to-day. Maddocks describes 

 Scarlet, Pink, Purple, and Crimson " Bizards," Pink and 

 Rose Flakes as the several sections cultivated in 1792. In 

 addition to these " is a sort held in high esteem by cultiva- 

 tors called Picotee, many of which are very beautiful, and, 

 being hardier than the other sorts, are inconsiderable request. 

 The colours are principally yellow and white spotted." 

 Picotees at this time had not, however, got beyond 

 petals with " serrated or jagged " edges. To Maddocks 

 belongs the honour of providing a standard for the modern 

 Carnation, a standard more or less faithfully copied by 

 " authorities " for at least fifty years afterwards. Space does 

 not permit a detailed account of the march of the Carnation, 

 and what we still call the Picotee, during the last century. 

 Yellow Picotees it may, however, be remarked, were 

 extremely popular during its first half, and it is only 

 lately that flowers with edges so clearly marked, and with 

 yellow of so deep a tint in the ground as those grown 

 in the thirties and forties, have been produced. The 

 white ground Picotees by the same date had become 

 equally refined. But it is interesting that, so late as 1 840, 

 Picotees were in Lancashire still called " stripes." In the 

 late sixties and the seventies Mr. C.Turner produced many 

 yellow varieties from a well-habited, stiff-growing variety 

 called Prince of Orange; Mr. J. Douglas continued the 

 work, while latterly Mr. Martin R. Smith has brought 

 them into line with the other sections, the German variety 

 German ia having latterly been largely used as a stud-plant. 



THE NAMES OF THE CARNATION 



A short resume of names applied to the Carnation 

 seems to be needed, in order to render what has been 

 recorded of its history more complete. Carnation, like 



