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the exterior pod, or calyx, to burft; the 
bloffoms of thefe Burfters, when properly 
managed, and in full bloom, were not 
lefs than four or five inches in diameter, 
and the centre of each was well filled up 
with the petals of the interior pod, fo as 
to make a very uniform and noble ap¬ 
pearance ; but it required much care and 
fkill to caufe them to blow in perfeflion. 
The attention of the Florift was di¬ 
verted from the cultivation of Burfters, 
by the introdu£lion of a new defcription 
of Carnations from France, about fifty 
years fince; thefe were denominated 
Whole-Blowers, in oppofition to the 
former term of Burfters ; they were alfo 
called French Flakes; their bloffoms, in 
general, were furnifhed with only one 
pod or calyx, which, by a little manage¬ 
ment on the approach of bloom, was 
preferved in an entire ftate; the culture 
of 
