62 THE CARNATION. 



I have been often gratified with the sight of new 

 yellow Picotees from the south of Germany : their 

 colours were rich and vivid, unicolor, bicolor, and 

 tricolor ; the shape of the blossoms finely formed, 

 and the petals large and regular. The Bizarrerie 

 or mixture of tints in many of them was to me 

 quite new : I have seen chocolate and yellow ; pink 

 and yellow; sulphur and crimson; buff, scarlet, 

 and grey; yellow, purple, and white; yellow, crim- 

 son, and chocolate ; yellow, slate, and grey ; some 

 with scarlet stripes upon lilac grounds; and the 

 reverse, presenting the glossy appearance of satin. 

 Though the colours upon the whole were very dis- 

 tinct, and finely traced, yet in some they were most 

 strangely confused and oddly mixed, like a painter's 

 delineation of fire, or rather his representation of fire 

 and smoke, consisting of red, yellow, and ash colour, 

 both dark and light, as in the flowers named ' Phce- 

 nix inter flammas ;' Newton and Ippersill. 



Any person desirous of viewing some of these new 

 and curious varieties, may have their desire gratified 

 by visiting my small garden in July next, (God 



