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very regularly distributed. Scarlet, purple, and pink, are the 

 three colours most predominant in the carnation. The two first 

 are seldom to be met with in the same flower, but the two 

 latter are very frequently found. 



" Where the scarlet predominates, and is united wdth a paler 

 colour, or, as it sometimes happens, with a very deep purple 

 upon a white ground, it constitutes a scarlet bizarre, of which 

 there are many shades and varieties ; some richer and others 

 paler in their colours, as is the case with all the rest. Pink 

 bizarres, are so called when the pink abounds ; purple bizarres 

 when the purple abounds ; crimson bizarres consist of a deep 

 purple and rich pink. 



" When the pink flake is very high in colour, it is distinguished 

 by the appellation of a rose-flake ; but there are some so nearly 

 in the medium between a pink and scarlet, that it can scarcely 

 be defined to what class it belongs." To these varieties may 

 be added picotees, w^hich are highly esteemed by some culti- 

 vators, on account of being hardier than the generality of 

 carnations, and are therefore desirable for the flower borders ; 

 independently of which, they are of themselves very beautiful, 

 and are distinguished from the others, their colours being prin- 

 cipally yellow and white spotted, while the others have their 

 colours in stripes. Their cultivation and propagation are similar 

 to that laid down for carnations. 



The enemies which annoy the carnation, are earwigs, slugs, 

 green-fly, above the surface of the ground, and that destructive 

 insect, the wire-worm, beneath it. The three former are easily 

 destroyed, by following the directions already laid down in 

 the foregoing parts of this work ; but the latter is not easily 

 got rid of, except by carefully searching for it in the ground, 

 which cannot ever be carried to any great extent. When it 

 makes its appearance in pots, it may be readily detected by 

 turning out the mould and potting the plants in fresh compost. 



Pinks not being so tender in their nature as carnations, they 

 are brought to great perfection with much less trouble, and are 

 seldom cultivated in pots to any great extent. However, the 

 choice kinds of pinks in beds should, during their season of 

 blooming, be protected by a screen similar to that used for 

 carnations, to protect them from the sun and heavy rains, 



