Dianthus caryophyl-lus. The Carnation is a prominent flower at the horticultural shows in England, and exciting contests for the premiums are annually exhibited. In the United States it succeeds but indifferently well, and a really good collection of Carnations is a rarity: indeed so rare, that but few of us have seen what a British amateur would deem worth looking at. We reprint the whole of the article on the subject as it originally stood in the Dictionary, for the benefit of those who may be disposed to make importations and embark in the culture of this charming (lower.

Mr. J. F. Wood, of the Coppice, Nottingham, gives the following list of varieties.

Scarlet Bizarres

Twitchett's Don John; Martin's Splendid; Headley's Achilles; Headley's William Cobbett; Bucknall's Earl Fitzharding; Strong's Duke of York; Wilmer's Conquering Hero.

Crimson Bizarres

Puxley's Prince Albert; Holmes' Count Paulina; Maus-ley's Robert Burns; Ely's Lord Milton; Jacques'Georgiana; Chambers' Kate; Jacques'Iris; Parker's Sophia.

Scarlet Flakes

Twitchett's Queen of Scarlet; Wigg's Earl of Leicester; Bucknall's Ulysses; Wilson's William the Fourth; Wilmer's Hero of Middlesex; Addenbrook's Lydia.

Purple Flakes

Mausley's Beauty of Woodhouse; Headley's Empress of Purples; Headley's Incognita; Pollard's First-rate; Wilmer's Solander; Millwood's Premier; Strong's Esther.

Rose Flakes

Brooks' Flora Garland; Greasley's Village Maid; Wilson's Harriet; Ely's Lady Ely; Sicla-more's Lady Rowley; Pearson's Madam Mara.

Scarlet Bizarres

Jolly Dragoon (Ely's); Game Boy (Rain forth's); Leader (Hepworth's); Don John (Merchant's); Lady of the Manor (Millwood's); Patriarch (Hulton's); Union Jack (Ward's); Sir Robert Peel (Groves'); Locomotive (Morris'); Duke of Leeds (Hoyle's); Prince Albert (Hoyle's); Splendid (Martin's); Conquering Hero (Wilmer's); Brutus (Col-cut's); Juba (Colcut's); Charles the Twelfth (Mausley's); William the Fourth (Walmsley's); Colonel (Lee's) Duke of Devonshire; Mars (Walmsley's).

Crimson Bizarres

Duke of Bedford (Ely's); Count Paulini (Holmes'); Duchess of Kent (Brown's); Bloombury (Soorn's); Hector (Brown's); Lord Milton (Ely's); Lord Brougham (Greas-ley's); Squire Plumtree (Hufton's);

Mrs. Brand (Ely's); William Caxton (Ely's); Robert Burns (Mausley's); Tally-ho (Woolley's); Bonpland (Wil-mer's); Dord Durham (Tomlinson's); Rainbow (Cartwright's); Squire Ray (Hufton's); Betty (Lovegrove's); King Alfred (Gregory's); Eclipse (Eason's); Taglioni (Pickering's).

Scarlet Flakes

Beauty of Cradley (Wallis'); Ringleader (Toane's); Bright Venus (Ely's); Premier (Creswell's); Lord Morpeth (Ely's); Captain Ross (Ely's); Mary Anne (Greasley's).

Rose Picotees

Few of this class are grown near Nottingham; the following are amongst the best: Queen Victoria (Green's); Favourite (Giddens'); Fanny Irby (Wilson's); Marchioness of Westminster (Evans'); Queen Victoria (Wains'); Ann Page (Lovegrove's); Marquis of Granby (Simpson's): Earl of Errol (Wilmer's); Wellington (Foster's); Earl of Leicester (Wigg's); Rob Roy (Orson's); Madame Mara (Pearson's); William the Fourth (Wilson's); Lady Hill (Pugh's); Fox Hunter (Hufton's): Donna Maria (Millwood's); Red Rover (Fletcher's); Bishop of Gloucester (Brown's).