SEEDLING CARNATIONS. 
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SEEDLING CARNATIONS. 
Nat. Order, Cauyophyllac . 
Generic Character. —Dianthus, Linnaeus. Calyx embraced j 
at the bottom by two or more imbricated bracts, very rarely 
without bracts; tube cylindrical, or sometimes clavate or tur¬ 
binate, five-toothed. Corolla of five petals, inserted hypogy- 
nously at the apex of the distinct stalk-like or cup-shaped car¬ 
pophore ; claws linear, elongated; limbs crenate, dentate, or 
laciniate, very rarely entire, naked or bearded at the base. 
Stamens ten, inserted with the petals ; filaments filiform ; an¬ 
thers two-celled, bursting longitudinally. Ovary one-celled; 
ovules numerous, inserted on a thick central columella, amphi- J 
tropous; styles two, filiform, stigrpatic on the inside. Cap- 
sales papery, cylindrical or oblong, one-celled, bursting from 1 
the summit down to the middle by four teeth or valves. Seeds 
numerous, horizontally or obliquely imbricated on the thickish 
central column, oval or oblong, depressed, rather convex on the 
back, the margin thickened on the face, more or less distinctly 
keeled, hilum central. Embryo excentric in farinaceous albu¬ 
men, parallel to the hilum, approached to the back; cotyledons 
plano-convex ; radicle terete, produced, irregular.—Herbs or 
shrubs growing in Europe and Northern Asia, more rarely in N. j 
America and the Cape of Good Hope; stems articulated with 
knots; leaves opposite, mostly connate at the base, grass-like, 
linear, more rarely lanceolate or oblong; flowers terminal, 
solitary or cymosely panicled, corymbose, fascicled or crowded 
into heads. 
Sect, Caryophyllum. —Flowers solitary, or many together, 
erowdedlv arranged in simple or compound cymes, now and then 
collected into bunches, with a many-leaved, herbaceous, univer¬ 
sal involucre, or none. Calyx cylindrical, herbaceous, papery 
or parchment-like, striately many-nerved, embraced by two or 
more herbaceous or parchment-like, imbricated bracts at the 
base, entire or very rarely split in front. Corolla salver-shaped, 
the linear claws of the petals dilated into the limb.—Herbs 
or under shrubs.—( Endlicher , Gen . Plant, 5244). 
Dianthus Caryophyllus, Linnaeus— Clove Pink. Stem 
branched, flowers solitary; ealycine scales (bracts) four, very 
short, ovate, rather mucronate ; petals very broad, beardless ; 
leaves linear, awl-shaped channelled, glaucous. 
Tar. flore-pleno .—The double state of the Clove Pink, in¬ 
cludes the florists’ varieties of Carnation. 
Carnations.— 1. Puxley’s Emperor. 
2. Puxley's Jenny Lind. 
3. Burr eager's Duke of Devonshire. 
B ESCRIPTION.—For the very splendid Carnations represented in the accompanying plate, 
we are indebted to Mr. Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough, who kindly forwarded them 
to us from the Great trial Exhibition at Derby, 
where each took the leading prize in its class. 
Jenny Lind, the crimson Bizarre, was raised 
by the 'veteran J. L. Puxley, Esq., Tenby, 
Pembrokeshire, in 1848. It is, in Florist's 
phraseology, a very true marker, of good con¬ 
stitution, winters exceedingly well, and will 
carry several blooms upon a plant large enough 
for exhibition in any stand. The colours 
are remarkably rich, richer than in any crim¬ 
son Bizarre at present in cultivation. It 
has been matched, we are informed, for £50, 
against Haines’ Black Diamond, a flower of 
which we have a drawing ; and they are to be 
shown next season. Emperor, scarlet Bizarre, 
was also raised by Mr. Puxley in 1848, and is a 
remarkably large and showy kind, of good habit 
and free growth. It is a fact worth recording 
that Mr. Puxley, though an extensive grower, 
has only two kinds in his garden which were 
not raised by himself. Duke of Devonshire, 
scarlet flake, is a seedling of Mr. Barrenger’s of 
St. Cuthbert’s, Bedford, and is a very evenly 
marked and excellent flower, rather small in 
our specimen, but still a fine flower. It is said 
to be of good constitution and very free. 
Culture.— The following remarks on pre¬ 
paring compost for Carnations are from the pen 
of a very successful cultivator, J. W. Newhall, 
Esq., of Woolwich, and we doubt not will be 
found interesting :—“ It will soon be time to 
mix the compost for the next year’s potting of Carnations, &c. Eschew all nostrums, and use 
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DIAGRAM OF A PERFECT CARNATION. 
