Plate 176 . 
PICOTEE, COLONEL CLARK, AND 
CARNATION, LORD CLIETON. 
Although we have still to regret that so little favour is be¬ 
stowed on this most beautiful and interesting tribe of florists’ 
flowers in and about our metropolis, we still feel that it must 
ere long force its way into favour and recognition, and we have 
therefore figured the two beautiful varieties which form our 
present Plate. 
When in a previous number we figured (Plate 138) two varie¬ 
ties of different classes to the present, we made some observa¬ 
tions on the neglect of this flower in this part of England, and 
ascribed it in great measure to the want of encouragement at 
our great metropolitan exhibitions, while not ignoring the dif¬ 
ficulty, or rather the trouble, connected with its cultivation. 
In a friendly notice of the number in a contemporary, a some¬ 
what strange reason was given for this neglect, viz. that it arose 
from the facility with which artificial imitations of it were made, 
and from the want of a handsome and striking foliage. In 
reply to this, we could draw attention to the fact, that other 
flowers, which are universal favourites, afford as easy an achieve¬ 
ment to the paper-flower maker as the Carnation,—we may 
instance the Camellia, the Rose, and the Dahlia, many of the 
imitations of these flowers being so excellent as to deceive in¬ 
experienced persons, and that the florist and the flower-loving 
public generally take but little notice of the foliage, the excel¬ 
lency of the flower being the point considered; for even in the 
Rose, how often are the most beautiful blooms exhibited with¬ 
out any foliage whatever. We therefore still maintain, that if 
this flower received more encouragement at our exhibitions, it 
