202 CARNATIONS 
affertion has not yet been fufficiently 
demonftrated by experiment. 
A Defeription of the Properties of a fine 
Variegated Double Carnation. 
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THE item fhould be ftrong, tall, and 
ftraight; not lefs than thirty, or more 
than forty-five inches high ; the foot- 
{talks, fupporting the flowers, fhould be 
ftrong, elaftic, and of a proportionate 
length. 
The flower, or corolla, fhould be at 
leaft three inches in diameter, confuting 
of a great number of large well-formed 
petals ; but neither fo many as to give it 
too full and crowded an appearance, nor 
fo few as to make it appear too thin 
and empty. 
The petals fhould be long, broad, and 
fubflantial, particularly thofe of the lower 
or 
