THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
September 1 , 1841. 
TREATMENT OF THE CARNATION. 
IN SUBSTANCE PARTLY FROM MR. HOGG, OF PADDINGTON. 
WITH PORTRAITS OF PUXLEY’s PRINCE ALBERT CARNATION AND QUEEN VICTORIA 
PICOTTEE; 
{Mr. P. being Successor to Mr. Hogg.) 
In the “ Florist’s Journal” for March last we gave, along 
with the figure of variety sent by Messrs. Youall, of Great Yar¬ 
mouth, some brief notes on the Carnation and its variety, the 
Picottee. In speaking of the two varieties, we may say that the 
Carnation, whether Flake or Bizarre, is the more gorgeous flower, 
and the Picottee the more light and airy. Picottees with a yellow 
ground do not preserve their character very well in this country, 
though in some respects they are more hardy than Carnations. 
We are not acquainted with these flowers in a state of nature ; 
but there is some reason to believe that the Flake is, as it were, 
a first departure from a self-coloured flower with a single row of 
petals ; that the Bizarre is a second and farther departure from 
this flower ; that the Picottee is a still farther departure, and the 
yellow-grounded Picottee the farthest of all. This is in so far 
corroborated by the fact, that the characters are more and more 
difficult to preserve in proportion as the variety deviates more and 
more from the self-coloured flower ; and the inference from this 
is, that the native habitat is warmer and drier than the middle 
latitudes of Europe, and consequently there is a tendency to lose 
the elimatal distinctions which have been produced by those 
differences of latitude. In Germany, and especially in Holland, 
though the climate is not warmer upon the whole than that of 
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