When the Carnation was known as a florist's flower especially grown for summer blooming, it was cut up into numerous classes, such as Picotee, Bizarres, Flakes, and so on. The fringed-edged class, which has given us our winter-flowering kinds, were known as Picotees. The regular old-fashioned clove-scented carnation, with its broad and entire-edged petals, and often with broad flakes of bright color going through each, has nearly disappeared, through being but a summer bloomer. Yet for a while it showed a tendency in the perpetual direction, and we had, with some popularity, tree carnations. If only some one would take hold of them, and give us a race of good free-blooming winter bloomers of this class, some one's fortune would be made.