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THE PINK. 
GLENNY ON THE PINK, 
ITS PROPERTIES AND CULTURE. 
Tee Pink is one of the oldest of the ge- 
nuine florist's flowers. The conversion, as it 
were, of single into double races was a work 
of the olden time, and year after year improve- 
ments have been made upon varieties already 
in existence, until some of the modern flowers 
have become in all respects worthy of the 
raisers and of the improved taste of the floral 
public. But there are very few that deserve 
this distinction. The prevailing fault of its 
nature is a serrated edge to the petals, and, 
strange as it may appear, there is so strong a 
disposition to revert to that fault, that many 
of the varieties which have been exhibited 
with perfect rose-edged petals have frequently, 
in untoward seasons, gone back to the worst 
description of serrated petals ; but this has 
been only temporary ; the next season, per- 
haps, the variety has recovered all its better 
qualities. The properties of the perfect pink 
have been already well established. As a 
complete paper on their culture and manage- 
ment should comprise the rules by which the 
value of a flower should be tested, they are 
subjoined : — 
PROPERTIES OP THE PINK. 
The properties of the pink, so far as form, 
substance, and some other particular features 
are concerned, should be the same as those of 
the carnation and picotee. 
1. The flower should be circular, and rise like 
half a ball. 
2. The petals should be thick, broad, smooth 
at the edges, without notch or serrature, regu- 
larly disposed, and each row smaller than that 
immediately under it. 
3. The ground should be pure white ; and 
the colour, whatever it may be — from rose- 
colour to dark red, or from lilac to dark 
