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never found in it; the mode of colouring is invariably and wholly 
different from, in fact, exactly opposite to that of the Carnation ; the 
colours of the one radiating from the centre, of the other being in con¬ 
centric circles. And yet these differences, great as they are, greater 
than in many real species, do not really separate them, for a Pink has 
been raised from a Carnation seed and a Carnation from a Pink ’seed, 
and the writer has seen a trustworthy instance of both. 
Nor has the Pink any reason to shrink from the greater brilliance of 
her more aristocratic relative. In fact, they can hardly meet. The 
one has left the assembly room and retired to rest ere the other has 
decked herself with her ornaments. And what can be prettier than the 
rich brown cherry of the eye and of the lacing of a Colchester Cardinal 
separated by a clear ground of white ? Then, too. Pinks have, all of 
them, more or less, the delicious clove scent which is grateful even 
to those who are offended by perfumes in general. Few Picotees, 
and still fewer Carnations, retain this characteristic of their original. 
In common, however, with the Summer Roses, with bulbous rooted 
flowers, and with most of our spring adornments, the beauty of all the 
three is but short lived; eleven months of patience, a week of labour, 
and three weeks of enjoyment. This hardly suffices for the railroad 
pace and exacting requirements of our generation. But there is no 
help for it. And though many drop off to the more enduring Verbena, 
Fuchsia, variegated Geranium, or even Petunia, there will always be a 
sufficient number of staunch supporters of the good old favourite, the 
Pink, to keep up its place among florists’ flowers. Go on. Dr. 
Maclean, and prosper, and put the renegades to shame. 
There is a disease to which it now seems it is liable, with some 
account of which, as it is neither common nor uninteresting, I will 
conclude. Last year a rathe^ formidable appearance shewed itself, not 
only in my frames but in the open garden, which at one time I 
purposed making the subject of a separate article in your pages, but 
want of time prevented me. It was chlorosis, and it affected nearly 
the whole of my Auriculas, whole beds of Annuals, a great portion of 
the young Apple and Pear trees, and some older ones, and some other 
things. Many plants died; the rest are slowly recovering. Some 
made no leaves during the whole year, and yet survived ; others made 
imperfect ones in form or colour. The proximate cause I found by 
numerous inspections to be root-paralysis. The affected plants ex¬ 
hibited no root action during the continuance of the affection. The 
most singular of all in appearance was a large patch of Pink, a plant 
of the second year. It had every sign of health for a time, except in 
the colour of the leaves, which were of an uniform light straw colour. 
This made its appearance first in the new growth, but before the time 
of flowering the whole of the old leaves were reduced to the same state 
of anoemia. It sent up many flowering spikes of the same pale and 
sickly hue as the leaves, except at the joints, which had a distinct trace 
of green in them, the only parts of the plant which had. The flowers 
opened half their usual size, with very few petals, and those deeply 
serrated in the edge, and no lacing ; but with the colour in the eye 
about the same as in plants of the same variety uninfected. It par¬ 
tially recovered during the autumn, but died in the winter. Iota. 
