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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST, 
[ January, 
Fotlios surprises arc remarkably satisfying, for their intense beauty, as well as 
naturalness. Fothos on a wall speedily loses the character of having been 
planted, and seems as if indeed it might have been generated or produced by the 
wall-material itself. This, I take it, is almost the perfection of wall-furnishing, 
for the hand of art to be hidden under the art and beauty of a natural-like 
effect. 
The Fothos argyrea is also easily propagated. The tip or any portion of 
each shoot or branchlet will grov7, if merely placed in soil and subjected to a 
temperature of from 65° to 70°. This is also the heat that suits the Fothos best in 
a growing state; therefore the places for it are the walls of the plant-stove or 
orchid-house.— D. T. Fish, Hardwiche House. 
THE CARNATION AND PICOTEE. 
Chapter XIII.— Descriptions of the Best Varieties, Old and New. 
EFOEE I had completed my self-imposed task of writing a monthly paper 
on these flowers, it was urged upon me by various correspondents that my 
work would be incomplete without a descriptive list, setting out the 
p specialities of the various kinds now most esteemed, with any peculiarity 
of treatment required; and I so far see the force of this argument, that I have 
willingly undertaken this further task. I have myself—and I have not the 
slifflitest sense of shame in the avowal—such a keen sense of the beauties of 
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the Carnation and Picotee, such an enjoyment in watching them through every 
stage and phase of their development, and such an eager appetite for every 
particular of their history, or specialities of their cultivation, that I cannot grow 
tired or satiated, though the story be oft-told. To me “ age cannot wither, nor 
custom stale ” their infinite variety but whether this may be the case with my 
readers, I am not able to judge. Still, if I may draw an inference from the 
correspondence reaching me—which comes with an ever-increasing volume—I 
am bound to believe the love for ‘‘ florists’ flowers ” is decidedly in the 
ascendant. 
For the descriptions to which an asterisk [^] is prefixed, I am indebted to my 
friend, Mr. George Eudd, of Bradford, his experience of those varieties being more 
extended than my own :— 
Scarlet Bizarre Carnations. 
Admiral Curzon (Easom).—Twenty-four years ago I wrote:—“ Commencing alpha¬ 
betically, this variety is first on my list, as it is first in my regard,” and despite the change 
such a lapse of time inevitably brings, it is pleasant to record the Admiral is yet left to us, 
and is as worthy of admiration as in the days of his earliest youth. Wherever Carnations 
are grown, north, east, west, or south, there is Curzon, and, wherever shown, always to the front; 
indeed, quite nine times in ten it is the best flower of the exhibition. Raised at Derby by 
James Milwood, but sold by him prior to blooming to Mr. Easom, whose name it bears; 
first bloomed in 1844, sent out in 1845 ; it was one of those large leaps in advance which seem to 
defy all efforts to surpass. For several years its origin was the subject of dispute, Milwood 
asserting the seed was taken from his Premier P.P., but in this I have good ground for 
believing he was mistaken; and I have as little reason to doubt, it sprang from Walmsley’s 
William IV., which, excepting only the “ legginess ” of that old variety, it closely follows 
