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THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
gating them, in order to keep up the stock by means of young 
plants. This is the only important feature of the florist’s 
procedure that we need notice here, because our business is 
simply to treat of them as border flowers. 
Many readers of this work may be glad of information on 
the essential characters of the three flowers we have now before 
PICOTEE. 
us. It must be understood, then, that a Pink is heavily coloured 
in the middle of every petal, this colouring constituting the 
“lacing.” The Carnation is marked in flakes or stripes from 
the base to the margin of every petal. The Picotee is edged 
with colour in marginal lines. The Clove, or “ girofler ” 
(Pr. Girojlier ) of the old poets is a self-coloured carnation, 
