A Practical Treatise On the Culture of the Carnation Pink Auricula Polyanthus
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THERE is one subject arising out of the present, to which I wish to call the reader's attention a sub- ject which, I frankly confess, I can neither compre- hend nor explain ; and the opinions that I have ventured to offer, whether my own or borrowed, are founded altogether on hypothesis, conjecture, and uncertainty. What I allude to are, in the language of a florist, the "Run-flowers. " Any one conversant with Carnations must have remarked, in some sorts, a singular tendency to run from their d...istinct and regularly-disposed colours. For instance, a Scarlet Bizarre, that is strongly marked with stripes of clove colour, will frequently change into a self-coloured flower, like the common clove j a Purple Bizarre, in like manner, will change THE CARNATION. 53 to a plain purple ; a Scarlet Flake to a plain scarlet, and so on through all their varieties. A flower so run loses all its estimation in the eyes of a florist, and occasions him frequent regret and disappoint- ment: for the chance of its returning to its true ' O colour is as one to one hundred.
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