. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 64 Caiyophyllecs—Dianthus. with a different colour from the white or yellow ground, some- times with the limb spotted or naarked with the same or a different colour. In England, it appears, little importance in classification is attached to the presence or absence of fringe at the extremity of the petals. In France also Carnations are usually divided in
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 64 Caiyophyllecs—Dianthus. with a different colour from the white or yellow ground, some- times with the limb spotted or naarked with the same or a different colour. In England, it appears, little importance in classification is attached to the presence or absence of fringe at the extremity of the petals. In France also Carnations are usually divided into three principal classes, which, however, are founded upon different characters. They are Orenadins, Flamands, and Fancies. The Grrenadins are cultivated almost solely for the perfumes they afford. The flowers are of medium size, single or double, fringed, unicoloured, deep purple, violet, or verging upon chestnut brown, all exhaling a grateful odour. The Flamands (fig. 43) have large more or less double very round flowers, raised or convex in the centre, with the petals quite entire and unicoloured, or banded longitudi- nally with two or three distinctly defined colours or tints upon a white ground. The Fancies are iubdivided into German and English, with the petals either toothed or not, but marked or striped with two or three different colours upon a yellow ground of various shades in the former, and wholly white in the latter. It will thus be seen that the English Picotees belong to the French Fancies, and the Flakes and Bizarres with entire petals to the Flamands. A fourth class, called Prolifer- ous Carnations, was formerly cultivated, but plants of this class are now usually discarded. They are so excessively double that the buds split up one side instead of opening regularly, thus giving the flower a very ragged and untidy appearance. The Flamands are so numerous, and for the greater part so ephemeral, that it would be quite superfluous to enumerate them here. The m
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