" MALMAISONS " 



THE popularity of what are now termed Malmaisons, 

 and more especially of the queen of the section, the 

 pink-coloured Souvenir de la > Malmaison, sometimes 

 called Princess of Wales and also Lord Rothschild, is 

 little short of marvellous. This is the more striking 

 because the Malmaison is admittedly one of the most 

 difficult of plants to cultivate successfully during a series 

 of years, its erratic behaviour proving a source of the 

 greatest worry to gardeners and of distress to garden- 

 owners. It is an admitted fact, too, that numbers of 

 efficient gardeners literally fail with the plants, and it 

 has been remarked that the cultivator who thoroughly 

 understands the ways of the Malmaison is yet to 

 appear. Those who are unacquainted with the flower 

 will naturally want to know why a section that brings 

 so much trouble to the cultivator, and about which there 

 constantly remains a kind of uncertainty as to what it 

 may do next, should still continue the object of solicitude 

 and care. The reason is that the three varieties of the 

 true Souvenir de la Malmaison surpass all other Carnations, 

 not alone in the size, but also in the superbly fascinating 

 form of the flower. Joined to that no variety is quite 

 so strongly fragrant of the delightful clove perfume. 

 The colour of the pink form, moreover, and particularly 

 when it assumes its deepest rose tint, is unsurpassed in 

 its loveliness. Nothing is more remarkable in connection 



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