Ca ryophy llece Dian thus. 



with a different colour from the white or yellow ground, some- 

 times with the limb spotted or marked with the same or a 

 different colour. In England, it appears, little importance in 

 classification is attached to the presence or absence of fringe 

 at the extremity of the petals. 



In France also Carnations are usually divided into three 

 principal classes, which, however, are founded upon different 

 characters. They are Grenadins, Flamands, and Fancies. 

 The Grrenadins are cultivated almost solely for the perfumes 

 they afford. The flowers are of medium size, single or double, 

 fringed, unicoloured, deep purple, violet, or verging upon 

 chestnut brown, all exhaling a grateful odour. The Flamands 

 (fig. 43) have large more or less double very round flowers, 



raised or convex in the centre, 

 with the petals quite entire and 

 unicoloured, or banded longitudi- 

 nally with two or three distinctly 

 defined colours or tints upon a 

 white ground. The Fancies are 

 subdivided into German and 

 English, with the petals either 

 toothed or not, but marked or 

 striped with two or three different 

 colours upon a yellow ground of 

 various shades in the former, and 

 wholly white in the latter. It 

 will thus be seen that the English 

 Picotees belong to the French 

 Fancies, and the Flakes and 

 Bizarres with entire petals to the 

 Flamands. 



A fourth class, called Prolifer- 

 ous Carnations, was formerly cultivated, but plants of this class 

 are now usually discarded. They are so excessively double that 

 the buds split up one side instead of opening regularly, thus 

 giving the flower a very ragged and untidy appearance. 



The Flamands are so numerous, and for the greater part so 

 ephemeral, that it would be quite superfluous to enumerate 

 them here. The merit of discovering the Perpetual Carnation 

 is due to a French gardener, M. Dalmais, of Lyons, and since 

 then many varieties possessing this unexpected Quality have 

 been raised by various horticulturists. 



Fig. 43. Dianthus Caryophyllus, Bizarre 

 variety. (J nat. size.) 



