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NUMBER XLII 
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FLORA, or the PreasurRE-GaRDEN 
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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfettion. 
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i; Th, BLO.0OD:-SPOTTED CARNATION. 
E enter now upon the Flowers of Sum- 
mer: what we have hitherto defcribed | 
os . ! are but the lateft of the Spring, tho’ 
interfperfed with fome which wander from their 
proper Seafons, and flower too early for their jut 
Time. 
The Ditineions in Natdie are not kept up 
with Exaétnefs on this Head; and thofe have 
- ‘therefore ufed an uncertain Method, who arranged 
the Garden Flowers according to the Seafons, 
We take them occafionally as they come into 
Flower, in thofe Gardens whence our Store of 
Obfervation is fupplied ; and the prefent Plate 
contains two» Spring. F lowers among thofe 
_of Summer, as the preceding have given fome of | 
4 the Summer Plants with thofe of Spring. 
a The Carnation is the great Pride of the Florift’s 
: Summer Collection ; and this Kind with which we 
4 _open the Scene of their Beauties, tho’ one ofthe 
earlieft, is not the leaft elegant. 
It is one of the more fimply variegated Kind ; 
the additional Colour: being fimple, and, laid on 
in Spots. This Difpofition is what gives a Car- 
nation the Name of Prquetre. “When the addi- 
tional Colour is in Streaks, if it be only one, the 
Flower in their Language is called a Fuaxs; if 
more than one, itis a BIZARRE. | 
Numb, XLII. 
Thefe* are the Gaideners Diftinétions : tis fit July. 
our Pupil know them, that he may be able to call ———~ 
each by its proper Title; and if to thefe he adds 
the two-coloured Kind, which has the white on 
the under Sidé of the Petal, and the purple entire 
on’ the upper, to which they give ‘the Name of 
PainteD Lapy;° he las all their ae 
Terms. 
Under each of thefe Heads thete : are innumera- 
ble Diftinétions of Flowers raifed from Seeds ; and. 
thefe the:Gardeners have named afer the Heroes 
of old Time, Darius and AcniLuEs; or after 
their Mafters.° Science would {mile to enumerate 
thefe, nor would Volumes contain them. | 
Rea, who wrote half a Century ago, has named 
more than four hundred; and our Induftry fince 
his Time has made that Number trifling. 
All thefe, that is every thing which is properly 
called a Carnation, the Botanical Sttident is to 
know, are Seedling Varieties of the common 
Clove July-flower, fo named expreffively from its 
‘Scent refembling that of the Clove Spice, and 
from July its Time of flowering. 
From this Stock ‘we fhall trace them under the 
fucceeding Head, which ‘is’ the Clove Julyflower 
little:altered, nor yet ‘broke into Spots or Streaks, 
or other Divifions of different Colours.» 
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