VARIETIES OF CARNATIONS. 123 



comes a new plant, nourished from its own 

 resources, and may be safely separated, either 

 by transplanting to a bed, or by potting. This 

 may be Hone in the autumn or in the spring. 



If you do not understand these directions, 

 or consider the operation of laying too trouble- 

 some, you may raise carnations by pipings, in 

 the same manner as you would pinks; but 

 they do not strike so freely as the layers, and 

 the plants are much weaker, because they are 

 longer in perfecting strong roots. 



There are many varieties of carnations : 

 florists have divided them into Picotees, Painted 

 Ladies, Bizarres, and Flakes. 



The flowers of the Picotees have a white 

 or yellow ground, and their edges are fringed 

 or jagged, and spotted with scarlet, red, purple, 

 or other colours. 



The petals, or leaves of the flowers, of the 



