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Hulo, The Fragrant, The Speckled Tawny, etc. If 

 he were alive now and issued a catalogue, we should all 

 fall victims and Master Tuggie would wax fabulously rich. 

 But I don't think even riches would cloud either the 

 happiness or the intelligence of anyone with so pleasant 

 a name as ' Master Tuggie.' In the Paradisus he is de- 

 scribed as ' the most industrious preserver of nature's 

 beauties.' After his death his widow evidently kept up 

 his collection of carnations, for Johnson, in his enlarged 

 edition of Gerard's Herball (1633), advises carnation 

 lovers to ' repaire to the garden of Mistress Tuggie (the 

 wife of my late deceased friend Mr. Ralph Tuggie) in 

 Westminster, which in the excellencie and varietie of 

 these delights exceedeth all that I have seene, as also he 

 himself, whilst he lived exceeded most, if not all, of his 

 time in his care, industry, and skill, in raising, increasing, 

 and preserving of these plants.' That great Yorkshire 

 gardener, William Lawson, was also an enthusiastic 

 carnation grower, and in his New Orchard and Garden 

 (161 8) he writes charmingly of them. ' July flowers,' he 

 says, ' commonly called Gilly- flowers or Clove July-flowers 

 (I call them so because they flowre in July) they have the 

 name of Cloves of their scent and the best sort of them 

 are called Queen- July-flowres. I have of them nine or 

 ten severall colours and divers of them as bigge as Roses : 

 of all flowres (save the Damask Rose) they are the most 

 pleasant to sight and smell.' 



The petals of Clove gillyflowers were used in as 

 many ways as rose petals. Wine was flavoured with them 

 (hence the popular name ' Sops in wine ') ; they were 

 candied and made into conserves and pickled ; they were 

 served as a sauce with mutton. Queen Henrietta Maria's 

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