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CARNATI O'N S. 
efpecially when their colours are remark¬ 
ably rich, and very regularly diftributed. 
Scarlet, purple, and pink, are the 
three colours moft predominant in the 
Carnation ; the two firft are feldom to be 
met with in the fame flower, but the two 
laft are very frequently. 
When the fcarlet predominates, and is 
united with a paler colour, or, as it fome- 
times happens, with a very deep purple 
upon a white ground, it conftitutes a 
fcarlet bizard, of which there are many 
{hades and varieties, fome richer, and 
others paler in their colours, as is the 
cafe with all the reft. 
Pink Bizards, are fo called when the 
pink abounds. Purple Bizards, when the 
purple abounds. Crimfon Bizards, con- 
fift of a deep purple and rich pink. 
When the pink flake is very high in 
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colour, it is diftinguifhed by the appella¬ 
tion 
