Rose Flakes

Lovely Anne (Ely's); Rosea (Hulton's); Queen Victoria (Hy-ron's); Lady Gardiner (Ely's); Lady Ely (Ely's); Elizabeth (Easum's); Village Maid (Greasley's); Lady Flora (Hudson's); Sarah (Hastings'); Brewing (Hoyle's); Miss Walker (Ash-worth's); Mrs. Pickering (Pickering's); Lovely Nancy (Hoyle's); Eliza (Parkinson's); Emma (Lakin's); Miss Molly (Ely's); Queen of England (Fletcher's); Luna (Brown's); Lady Egerton (Low's); Lady Grey (Malpas').

Purple Flakes

Mango (Ely's); Beauty of Woodhouse (Mausley's); Bellero-phon (Leighton's); Prince Charlotte (Turner's); Premier(Millwood's); Squire Meynell (Brabbin's); Sir J. Plastain (Bates'); British Queen (Elliot's); Invincible (Simpson's); Major (Spray's); Miss Thornton (Hudson's); Enchanter (Pearson's); Rev. J. Gisborne (Brab-bins'); Magnificent (Ely's); Queen Victoria (Ely's); Cleopatra (Weldon's); First Rate (Pollard's); Platoff (Hall's); Major Cartwright (Hall's).

Red Picotees

Mrs. Flower (Ely's); Miss Bacon (Wollard's); Little Wonder (Wollard's); Duke of Wellington (Sharp's); Mary (Morris'); Pilot (Morris'); Will Stakely (Hutton's); Derby Willow (Maw's); King of the French (Green's); Royal Briton (Hardy's); Matilda (Parkinson's); Venus (Hudson's); Mary Antony (Benn's); Hector (Sharp's); Cornelius (Barraud's); Colonel Foreman (Barraud's); Teazer (Giddens'); Caesar (Giddens'): Criterion (Sharp's); Catherine (Hardy's); Nulli Secundus (Mausley's); Bloomsbury (Clegg's); Mrs. Jud-son (Wheatley's); Lady Peel (Pullen's); Vespasian (Giddens'); Victoria (Mus-croft's); Queen of Sheba (Wakefield's); Nottingham Hero (Robinson's); Mr. Mugglestone (Robinson's); Hope (Brink-ler's); Trip to Cambridge (Dickson's); Grace Darling (Ely's); Pluperfect (Wilson's); Queen Victoria (Kirkland's); Nehemiah (Hufton's); Delight (Jackson's); Victoria (Crask's); Isabella (Hufton's); Miss Hunter (Hufton's), alias Toones, Miss Garey; Mary (Lee's).

Characteristics Of Excellence

Mr. Orson, at a meeting of the Floricultural Society, made these excellent observations: - "Carnations were originally divided into three classes, viz., Bizarres, Flakes, and Picotees; but the latter are now considered a distinct variety. Bizarres were distinguished by having two colours, and flakes by having only one colour upon a white ground; these two principal classes being subdivided into scarlet, crimson, pink, and purple bizarres - scarlet, purple, and pink or rose flakes. In some counties pink, purple, and crimson bizarres were all classed under the head of pink bizarres, whereas in other parts of the country they were known as crimson bizarres.

"The calyx, or pod, should be long, firm, and entire, of sufficient substance to support the petals, which should be thick, broad, and substantial, smooth, and free from indenture on the edge. The guard petals should rise gracefully above the pod, and turn in a horizontal direction, having a gradual disposition to cup, but not terminating in an abrupt curl, at the outer edge, the whole forming a complete circle. The interior petals should rather decrease in size as they approach the centre, each row being regularly and alternately arranged above the other, and not have a loose and gaping appearance, in fact, the spaces should be only sufficient to display the colouring distinctly. The number of petals in a first rate flower should not be less than seventeen, three of them being placed in the centre, to form a crown.

"The whole would then, if well arranged, produce the form of the half of an oval or elliptic, when held on a side view; having, when seen from above, a circular appearance. The colours, whether bizarre or flake, should be strong, brilliant, and distinct throughout. The ground colour should be a pure white; free from speck, spot, tint, or tinge of any sort. The flakes should be broad and bold, commencing at the extreme edge, of a proportionate width to the petal, running through to the centre, or as far as the eye can discern, and diminishing in breadth as they approach the centre, in the same ratio as the petal. The distribution of colours should be equal in every respect: in a flake, not less than three divisions in each petal; in a bizarre, not less than five divisions, and properly arranged; their respective and united beauties should be strikingly apparent.

"Size should not be lost sight of, though it should never take precedence, unless the other general properties were equal. The disqualifications of a carnation are - a dead, loose, mutilated, or split petal, a petal having no white on the upper side; a petal having (if a flake) no colour upon the white on the upper side; a petal upon which (if a bizarre) there are not two colours upon the white on the upper side; if the pod be split down to the sub-calyx, or cut away in any part." - Gard. Chron.

"The properties of the picotee, with regard to form and petal,"says the same authority, " are the same as in the carnation, with this exception, that, as the colour of the picotee is, or ought to be, confined to the margin of the petal, a greater degree of fulness was admissible, proportionate with the lightness or narrowness of the marking. The colour should be clear and distinct, confined to the edge of the petal, and not running down orbarring; neither should the white in the slightest degree run through to the edge of the petals, but whether lightly or heavily marked, the colour should be regular, at an equal distance from the edge all round the petal, each petal having the same regularity of colouring throughout the flower.

"Although a full flower is not so objectionable as in the carnation, yet, as very full picotees are not to be advocated, a medium fulness is best. The same disqualifications with regard to the petal and pod are applicable as to the carnation." - Gard. Chron.