58 POPULAR GARDEN FLOWERS 



with cut-edged petals. They are winter and spring 

 bloomers, self-coloured, long-stemmed, and very sweet. 

 (What might be termed an Anglo-American class has 

 been evolved, the members of which have the large 

 flowers, long stems, rich colours and full perfume of 

 the Americans, but smooth-edged instead of cut-edged 

 petals. A cut-edged petal has always been an abomina- 

 tion to British florists.) 



Fancies are flowers with irregular markings on 

 coloured or white grounds. The Yellow Ground 

 Fancies are a beautiful class, which has been greatly 

 increased and improved in recent years. The body 

 colour is marked with plum, pink, rose, or some other 

 colour in stripes and flakes. 



Picotees may be first classified as Yellow or White 

 Grounds ; secondly, as light, medium, or heavy-edged ; 

 and thirdly, as red, rose, scarlet, or purple-edged. If 

 the colour is a thin line on the very edge of the petal, 

 the flower is a light-edge ; if it is a belt a sixteenth 

 of an inch wide, or thereabouts, the flower is a medium- 

 edge ; if it is a broader belt of something like an 

 eighth of an inch, the variety is a heavy-edge. Thus 

 a flower will be a " White Ground, heavy rose-edge," 

 if the body colour is white and the marginal colour a 

 broad belt of rose. 



The Malmaison, Tree, American, and Anglo-Ameri- 

 can Carnations are grown under glass most of the year, 

 although it is not unusual to stand them out of doors 

 on a bed of ashes in the summer. The Malmaisons 

 are usually propagated by layering in a frame in spring, 

 the method being the same as that which is to be de- 

 scribed presently for garden Carnations ; but also by 

 cuttings. They need great care in watering and venti- 

 lating. They are not plants for the one-house amateur, 



