The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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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.

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