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Carnation (Supplement)

All the sections of the Carnation are immensely popular, and have been greatly improved during the last year or two. The Self-coloured varieties have been more in demand during the season 1887-8 than the Bizarres and Flakes. A few additions in these classes are as follows:

Scarlet Bizarres. DREADNOUGHT (Daniels), GEORGE (Dodwell), JAMES MCINTOSH (Dodwell), ROBERT HOULGRAVE (Barlow), ROBERT LORD (Dodwell).

Crimson Bizarres. ALBION'S PRIDE (Headley), HARRISON WEIR (Dodwell), H. K. MAYOR (Dodwell), ROBERT SCOTT (Scott), THE LAMPLIGHTER (Wood). Pink and Purple Bizarres. MRS. GORTON (Dodwell), SIR GARNET WOLSELEY (Turner), SQUIRE LLEWELLYN (Dodwell), TWYFORD PERFECTION (Young), UNEXPECTED (Turner), WILLIAM SKIRVING (Gorton).

Purple Flakes. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (Sealey), SPORTING LASS (Fletcher), SQUIRE MEYNELL (Brabbin), SQUIRE WHITBOURN (Dodwell).

Rose Flakes. JOHN KEET (Whitehead), MRS. BRIDGEWATER (Bridgewater), MRS. ERSKINE (Dodwell), SYBIL (Holmes), THALIA (Douglas).

Scarlet Flakes. ALISEMOND (Douglas), FLIRT (Turner), HENRY CANNELL (Dodwell), MATADOR (Abercrombie), SPORTSMAN (Hedderley).

Clove Carnations and Selfs. AMBER (Maunder), amber coloured; BRIDE (Hodges), fine white; COMTE DE CHAMBORD, flesh-white; CREMORNE (Turner), light purple; DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT (Abercrombie), pure white; EDITH (Finlinson) bright yellow; EUPHROSYNE (Dodwell), rose; FLORENCE (Wallington), buff; IMPERIAL PURPLE (Abercrombie), rich purple; MRS. REYNOLDS HOLE (Nowell), terra-cotta colour; PRIDE OF PENSHURST (Bridger), yellow; PURPLE EMPEROR (Douglas), bright purple; ROSE CELESTIAL (Douglas), rose; SCARLET GEM (Douglas), brilliant scarlet; THE GOVERNOR (Cross), blush white; WILL THRELFALL (Threlfall), yellow.

TREE OR PERPETUAL. The following Tree Carnations have all, with the exception of MRS. KEEN, been raised by Mr. Charles Turner in the Royal Nurseries, Slough, and are indispensable to all good collections:

A. H. KENNEDY, bright scarlet; AMETHYST, crimson-scarlet; BLACK DIAMOND, dark maroon; CLEOPATRA, deep rose; COLONEL COX, vivid scarlet; COLOUR-SERGEANT, very bright scarlet; CORONET, rich scarlet, large; COSSACK, dark crimson; COUNTESS HOWE, pale buff, splashed pink; MADELEINE, delicate pink; MONT BLANC, pure white; MRS. KEEN (Veitch), dark crimson; MRS. LLEWELYN, deep rose; MRS. OLDACRE, bright rose; MRS. W. H. GRENFELL, salmon-pink; NOVELTY, silvery-white, striped crimson; PHYLLIS, white ground, edged scarlet; PURPLE KING, large, bright purple; RISING SUN, intense scarlet; ROSETTA, bright rose.