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DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARNATION 



ups and downs, and on the balance of things was making 

 progress. By the" tend of the seventeenth century very 

 large flowers in jnumerous colors, some of them flaked and 

 edged, were in^'greatest favor, and the biggest bloom with 

 the best burst calyx, a Burster, was the most prized of alL 







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Dissection of a Double Flower — a Long Way from the 



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If the calyx did not split the flower was a Whole Blower, 

 and the gardeners used to help matters along by slitting 

 the calyx either with a penknife or scissors. This vogue 

 continued seemingly, until the opening of the nineteenth 

 century. Philip Miller in his " Gardeners' Dictionary," 

 in the middle of the eighteenth century, mentions it, and 

 advice as to sphtting occurs for half a century after that. 

 But the ideal form of the Carnation of those days was very 



