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colour predominating over the purple or crimson, but the 

 Pink or Crimson Bizarres have more of these colours than 

 the scarlet. Scarlet Flakes are simple white grounds, with 

 distinct stripes or ribbons of scarlet. Rose and Purple 

 Flakes have these two colours upon a white ground. The 

 properties in other respects are 



i. The flower should be not less than two and a-half 

 inches across. 2. The guard or lower petals not less than six 

 in number, must be broad, thick, and smooth on the outside, 

 free from notch or serrature on the edge, and lapping over 

 each other sufficiently to form a circular rose-like flower ; the 

 more perfectly round the outline the better. 3. Each layer 

 of petals should be smaller than the layer immediately 

 under it ; there should not be less than five or six' layers of 

 petals laid regularly, and the flower should so rise in the 

 centre as to form half a ball. 4. The petals should be stiff, 

 free from notches, and slightly cupped. 5. The ground 

 should be pure white, without specks of colour. 6. The 

 stripes of colour should be clear and distinct, not running 

 into one another, nor confused, but dense, smooth at the 

 edges of the stripes, and well defined. 7. The colours, 

 must be bright and clear, whatever they may be ; if there 

 be two colours, the darker one cannot be too dark, or form; 

 too strong a contrast with the lighter. With scarlet the 

 perfection would be black ; with pink there cannot be too- 

 deep a crimson ; with lilac, or light purple, the second 

 colour cannot be too dark a purple. 8. If the colours run 

 into the white and tinge it, or the white is not pure, the 

 fault is very great, and pouncy spots or specks are highly 

 objectionable. 9. The pod of the bloom should be long 

 and large, to enable the flower to bloom without bursting it. 



Properties of a good Picotee. Picotees are divided into- 

 seven classes, i. Red, heavy-edged. 2. Red, light-edged. 

 3. Rose, heavy-edged. 4. Rose, light-edged. 5. Purple, 

 heavy-edged. 6. Purple, light-edged. 7. Yellow grounds,, 

 without any distinction as to the breadth of the edge colour. 



The characteristics of good form are the same as for the 

 Carnation, but with regard to colour i. It should be clear, 

 distinct, confined exclusively to the edge of the petals, of 

 equal breadth and uniform colour on each, and not running, 



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