would speedily become popular; but no one must enter on its 
cultivation who is not prepared to undertake a considerable 
amount of trouble, for, unlike some other flowers which may 
be safely left to themselves for some months in the year, the 
Carnation and Picotee, like the Auricula, require constant 
watching. 
The varieties now figured are Picotee, Colonel Clark (Nor¬ 
mans), Fig. 1, a beautiful rosy-scarlet edge, heavily marked, 
without any bar,—the substance of the petal is also very good,— 
and the white, remarkably clear: Carnation, Lord Clifton (Pux- 
ley), Fig. 2, a pink and purple bizarre of great size and beauty. 
We saw it exhibited at the Alexandra Park Show during the 
past summer, and it struck us then as being one of the finest 
flowers we had ever seen, and that, too, in a class in which 
really good flowers are by no means numerous. 
