THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
March 1, 1841. 
ZENOBXE.-PICOTTEE. 
W e have selected this beautiful specimen of one of the choicest 
florist’s flowers, as the illustration for our present number. The 
flower is the property of Messrs. Youall, of the Yarmouth Nur¬ 
sery, Great Yarmouth, who have excellent and healthy plants of 
this variety, as well as many other choice ones, on sale, at moderate 
prices, considering the beauty of their flowers. They warrant 
them true to their variety, and not liable to run a brake, which 
are great matters in flowers so difficult to be kept to their colours 
as fine Carnations—Flakes, Bizarres, and Picottees. 
THE CARNATION, DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS. 
This flower belongs to the class Decandria , and order Dygynna , 
of Linnseus, and to the natural order Caryophyllece, though some 
botanists have doubts as to the origin being exactly the same as 
the Clove, to which the name more strictly applies. It is probable 
that we owe the Carnation to the same source to which we are 
indebted for many of the older ornaments of our gardens, viz. to 
the monks, who introduced flowers and fruits from Italy and 
other parts of the continent, superior to any that were previously 
known in England; and, by foreign instruction, they appear to 
have managed them in a manner superior to anything known to 
our cultivators at that period. 
vol. ii. no. Hi. 
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