*& 



Why knows the Nightingale to sing? 



Why flows the Vines nectareous juice? 

 Why shines with paint the Linnet's wing? 



For sustenance alone? for use? 

 For preservation? Every sphere 

 Shall bid fair Pleasure's rightful claim appear. 

 And sure there seem of human kind 



Some born to shun the solemn strife ; 

 Some for amusive tasks design'd, 

 To sooth the certain ills of life; 

 Grace its lone vales with many a budding rose, 



New founts of bliss disclose, 

 Call forth refreshing shades, and decorate repose. 



Shenstone. 



Florists distinguish Carnations into four divisions : 



1. Flakes, of two colours only, and their stripes large, going quite through the petals. 



2. Painted Ladies, having the petals of a red, or purple, on the upper part only, and the 



under side of a clear white. 



3. Bizarres, flowers striped or variegated with three or four different shades of colour. 



4. Piquettes, a white or yellow ground, edges toothed and spotted, or, to use the florist's ex- 



pression, pounced, with scarlet, red, or purple. 

 In our Plate of these Carnations * there are two purple Flakes; the upper is Palmer's 

 Duchess of Dorset, and the lowest one Palmer's Defiance: — there are two scarlet 

 Bizarres; that on the right is Caustin's British Monarch, and the center one, a paler red, 

 is Midwinter's Duchess of Wurtemberg: — likewise there are two Piquet tes; the red 

 Piquette is Davey's Defiance, and the purple one the Princess of Wales. 







* These Carnations were all of them copied, of the exact size of Nature, from out of the choice collection of Mr. Davet, of the 

 King's Road, Chelsea, as were the Tulips from that of Mr. Mason, certainly the first florists in the world, and gentlemen extremely 

 desirous of giving every information and encouragement to the Botanist. 





