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Show Carnations that will carry only one blooming pod on a stem : — Martin’s Splendid, 
Eason’s Admiral Curzon, Eliott’s Duke of Sutherland, Liglitbody’s Mr. Groom, Fletcher’s 
Duke of Devonshire, Rainsforth’s Game Boy, Colent’s Brutus, Ely’s Lord Milton, Gregory's 
King Alfred, Jaques’ Georgiana, Puxley’s Queen Victoria, Ely’s Mongo and Prince de Nassau, 
Willmer’s Mayo, Nix’s Lady Chetwynd, Chadwick’s Brilliant, Wilson’s William IV., Wigg’s 
Earl of Leicester, Simpson’s Queen Victoria, Brown’s Bishop of Gloucester, Ely’s Lady 
Ely, Barringer’s Apollo, Tomlyn’s Brisius, Wilson’s Haniel, Wood’s Rosabella, Fletcher’s 
Duchess of Devonshire. 
Show Carnations that will carry two blooms on a stem for exhibition : — Hepworth’s 
Hamlet, Smith’s Duke of Wellington, Twitchet’s Don John, Willmer’s Conquering Hero, 
Sharpe’s Defiance, Lodge’s True Briton, Hale’s Prince Albert, Cartwright’s Rainbow, Ely’s 
Duke of Bedford, Ely’s Mrs. Brane, Ely’s Hugo Meynell, Halfacre’s Rainbow, Holmes’ 
Count Pauline, Mansley’s Robert Burns, Wood’s William IV., Puxley’s Solander, Jacques’ 
Iris, Hughes’ Napoleon, Brooks’s Eliza, Brabbins’s Squire Meynell, Ely’s John Wright, 
Mansley’s Beauty of Woodhouse, Taylor’s Lord Byron, Pollard’s First Rate, Bucknall’s 
Ulysses, Ely’s King of Scarlets, Puxley’s Rising Sun, Willmer’s Hero of Middlesex, Smith’s 
Marquis of Chandos, Copeland’s Superb, Chadwick’s Flora, Ely’s Lady Gardener and 
Lovely Ann, Greasley’s Village Maid, Lowe’s Marchioness of Westminster. 
Show Carnations that will carry three blooms on a stem for exhibition : — Colent’s Julia, 
Davidson’s Vanqueur, Barnard’s Duke of Roxburgh, Puxley’s Prince Albert, Young’s Earl 
Grey, Hale’s Lady of the Lake, Sealy’s Princess Royal, Addenbrooke’s Lydia, Brooks’s 
Flora’s Garland, Puxley’s Lady Alice Peel, Puxley’s Princess Royal and Queen of Roses. 
Show Picotees that will carry only one bloom on a stem for exhibition : — Barnard’s 
Cornelius, Brooks’s Duchess of Cambridge, Dickson’s MTrshaw, Sharpe’s Red Rover, 
Mathew’s Ne plus' ultra, Sharpe’s Countess de Grey, Tolworthy’s Isabella, Brinldow’s 
Conductor, Burroughs’s Lady Douro, Ely’s Mrs. Lilly, Mitchell’s Nulli secundus, Sharpe’s 
Joinville, Brinklow’s Lady Chesterfield, Burroughs’s Duke of Newcastle, Headly’s King 
James, Cox’s Victoria Regina, Mrs. Barnard John’s Prince Albert, Kirtland’s Queen Vic- 
toria, Mathew’s Enchantress, Sharpe’s l’Elegant, Arvel’s Princess Alice, Willmer’s Princess 
Royal, Irshar’s Matilda, Wilson’s Miss Fanny Irby, Barraud’s Bride, Burroughs’s Lady 
Alice Peel, Dickson’s Mrs. Irshar, and Garratt’s Lady Dacre. 
Show Picotees that will carry two blooms on a stem for exhibition : — Dickson’s 
Charles Stanford, Wildman’s Isabella, Burroughs’s Mrs. Bevan, Cook’s President, Dickson’s 
Lady Jane Grey, Burroughs’s Emma, Edmonds’ Jenny Lind, Sharpe’s Gem, Burroughs’s 
President, Ely’s Favourite, Green’s Queen, Sharpe’s Agitator, Willmer’s Prince Royal, 
Burroughs’s Miss Jane, Robinson’s Nottingham Hero, Willmer’s Elizabeth, Dickson’s 
Sophia, and Syke’s Eliza. 
Show Picotees that will carry three or more blooms on a stem for exhibition : — 
Waine’s Victoria, Irshar’s Rosalind, Gedden’s Sir R. Peel, Gedden’s Masterpiece, Sharpe’s 
Duke of Wellington, and several others. It is requisite, to bloom some of these latter 
varieties in perfection, to take off the master pod, which decreases the others in size, and 
induces their expansion more truly, and in greater perfection. Brilliancy of colour in the 
Carnation and Picotee is another point of excellence to which it is desirable to direct the 
attention of amateurs. To facilitate this, I recommend a weak solution of sheep manure 
in water, to be given them once or twice a w r eek during the period the pods are swelling. 
Should this solution be judiciously applied, it will be found highly beneficial both as 
regards the size and beauty of the flowers. 
The manner of preparing this manure water is briefly as follows : — Have a sufficient 
quantity of water to irrigate your plants once made boiling hot, previously ordering a tub 
to be prepared, with due regard to the quantity of water before alluded to ; place therein 
one-third of sheep manure in a fresh state, then pour the boiling water on it till the tub 
becomes filled ; stir it up from the bottom with a stick for two or three minutes, when 
it must be covered over with a cloth to prevent the steam from escaping ; in about two 
hours it may be strained through a fine sieve, when it is ready for use. To every three 
gallons of pure water add one quart of the above mixture. 
