CARNATION. 
" 1 . The Stem of the ^ower should be strong, 
and able to support the weight of the flower 
without hanging down. 
2. The petals should be long, broad, and 
siifF, and pretty easy to expand; or, as the 
Florists term it, should make free flowers. 
. ■ 3. The middle of the flower should not 
advance too high above the other parts. 
" 4. The colours should be brightj and 
equally marked ail over the flower. 
*' 5. The flower should be very full of 
petals; so as to render it, when blow^n, very 
thick in the middle, and the outside perfevStly 
round. 
*' To this we may add, that the stem should 
not only be strong, but straight, and not less 
than thirty, or more than forty-five, inches 
high. The flower should be, at least, three 
inches in diameter ; and the petals well formed, 
neither so many as to appear crouded, nor so 
i«vv us to appear thin. The lower or outer 
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