SELECT CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. 
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DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON A FEW SELECT 
CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. 
Sir, —-In accordance with your wishes, I send you a few notes 
on Carnations and Picotees, which may perhaps be useful to 
some of your readers, as this is the season for procuring plants 
to bloom next summer. 
SCARLET BIZARRES. 
The furor that was excited by Twichett's Don John a 
couple of years ago, has subsided, and notwithstanding that 
the raiser has obtained all the prizes in its class within this 
year at Cambridge, I consider it a very uncertain flower, 
having seen many blooms of it this year, and hardly one perfect 
one. Shading does not suit it, for then the petals do not ex¬ 
pand sufficiently ; and if in the sun, its very brilliant colour is 
apt to run. It is, however, a variety worth possessing, and 
may perhaps get more steady as it grows older. 
Martins Splendid , in colour a rich brownish scarlet, deserves 
the name; but its growth is very bad, not rising more than 
18 inches in the flower stem, and the foliage scanty and dwarf. 
Hence perhaps it maintains its high price longer than other 
varieties. 
Jily s Lord Pollington. Pod good, colour good also, and, like 
all of Ely’s flowers, opens well and flat. 
Smiths Duke of Wellington . A large bright-coloured flower, 
pod good, luxuriant in its growth, and a very desirable variety. 
To these may be added, Ramsforth’s Game Boy, and Flet¬ 
cher’s Duke of Devonshire, 
CRIMSON BIZARRES. 
Puxleys Prince Albert. An uncertain flower, rather faint 
in colour, but large, and a desirable variety, though eclipsed, I 
think, by that fine old variety, 
Cartwrights Rainbow. A good flower, bright in colour, but 
rather hard to grow well. 
Wood s William IV. I have had blooms on this root, which 
I have not seen equalled by any other. The guard petals are 
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