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part of the petals with wonderful rich red 

 markings. It is certainly a most gorgeously 

 beautiful Carnation, and I am much looking 

 forward to seeing it flower in my garden 

 very soon. I should name Queen Eleanor 

 and Linkman next in order ; they seem gen- 

 erally to divide the honours of the London 

 Sho\v. The class is so numerous I can do 

 no more than name others in order of memory 

 rather than of merit : John Ridd, Liberte. 

 Ronny Buchanan (very healthy, but I hate 

 th<- Mend of colours), Lord Steyne, Renown, 

 I nt ster, Sweetheart (apricot, marked with 

 pink), The Baron, Virginia, Alice Byron 

 Sic \\art, Ironside, Melton Prior, Mrs. Fred 

 Gardiner, Mona, and, 

 last but not least, dear 

 Sam W e 1 1 e r, which 

 flowers as early as 

 Lady Hermione, and 

 can be highly recorn- 

 mended. 



White Ground 

 Fancies. Montrose is 

 the best White Ground 

 Fancy I myself have 

 < -\ -i T grown ; if it has 

 any faults I am blind 

 to them. Delicia and 

 The Bride have also 

 done well in my gar- 

 den, and they are very 

 beautiful. This year I 

 am growing the new 

 variety Mrs. H. L. 

 Hunt, which is white, 

 marked with pale grey ; 

 I understand it is very 

 healthy and vigorous. 

 Millie is said to he 

 no use for the border, 

 as it has a weak neck. 

 The Nizam is good, as 

 is also Apollo, and this 

 latter is almost per- 

 petually in flower. A 

 novelty is shortly to 

 emerge from Edenside 

 named Daisy Walker 

 (First Class Certificate, 

 London, 1913), white, 

 prettily marked with 

 rosy red. 



Fancies of Various Ground Colours. 



Of these I should place Mrs. Andrew Brother- 

 ston first in order of merit ; it is a very 

 striking flower in every way. Beautiful in 

 form, vigorous in habit, and considered to 

 have the strongest clove scent of any Carna- 

 tion. The colouring is really indescribable ; 

 a crimson-purple mottled with white, is 

 the best I can do. It rather resembles some 

 kinds of Iris. Hecla has a crimson ground 

 marked with fiery red ; Caprice is pink, 

 spotted with deep rose ; Banshee, heliotrope 

 striped with pink ; Harlequin has canary, 

 rose and crimson stripes a remarkable 

 flower even among the Fancies. 



Carnation Hercules, of maroon colouring. 



