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INTRODUCTION. 
country, we pretend not to determine; 
it feems rather a difputable point, and 
therefore, after having related the Ample 
* , 
fa£t, we leave the difcuffion to thofe who 
may be able to decide upon it with more 
certainty. 
The Carnation has attained its prefent 
degree of perfe&ion, by the unremitting 
attention of Florifts to its culture from 
feed, the only line in which the fpecies 
of any plant, or flower, can poflibly re¬ 
ceive improvement or variety. 
The principal, or moft generally 
efteemed, forts of Carnations, cultivated 
in England, till within the laft fifty years, 
were called Burfters, becaufe their blof- 
foms d confifted of a double pod; e the 
interior one being in the centre of the 
other, and containing likewife a great 
number of petals, by its fwelling caufed 
4 Corolla. * Calyx. 
the 
