1 6 INTRODUCTION. 
The great improvements made in the 
Pink, are of very recent date, and hither¬ 
to chiefly, if not wholly, confined to this 
kingdom; in fhort, we may venture to 
aflert, that a Pink called Majors Lady 
Stoverdale, raifed from feed in the 
fouthern parts of England, by the perfon 
whofe name it bears, was the firft that 
deferved to be clafled amongft fuch as 
are now held in efteem by Florifts ; it 
was raifed about twenty years fince, and 
was the firft Pink poflefled of that lingular 
and beautiful ornament called a Lacing, 
which is a continuation of the colour of 
the eye, round the white or broad part of 
the petal, that gives it a moft elegant 
appearance. 
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Very little progrefs has yet been made 
towards diverting the Pink of its fringed 
or ferrated edge; but that effeft having 
been produced in the Carnation, we may 
reafonably 
