also barren, for the organs for reproduction are lost in the multiplication of the petals. You 

 must, therefore, select seed from a carnation raised itself from seed, not from layers, and from such 

 also whose flowers shew a perfect pistillum. And as the dust of one flower will impregnate and 

 enliven that of another, and from such couplings the seeds are so changed as to produce plants 

 changing from the mother plant (as I have proved in my chapter on the Generation of Plants). 

 This consideration leads me to advise the curious florists to plant of every sort of his best 

 carnations in beds, on a line in the middle, and on each side of them to set at least two rows of 

 single ones of ehoiee eolours, and among them also some plants of Pinks and Smeet-wiUiams, which 

 are of the same genus.^^ Vide Bradley, Professor of Botany, on Gardening, p. 122. pubUshed 



in 1727. 



By this latter part of the experiment Fairchild produced his Mule Pink, which the eye 



at once discovers to be betwixt a Sweet-william and a Pink. 



Caryo's sweet smile Dianthus proud admires, 



And gazing burns with unallow'd desires ; 



With sighs and sorrows her compassion moves, 



And wins the damsel to illict loves. 



So, in her wane of beauty, Ninon won 



With fatal smiles her gay unconscious son— 



Clasp'd in his arms, she own'd a mother's name,— 



" Desist, rash youth! restrain your impious flame; 



" First on that bed your infant-form was press'd, 



'' Born by my throes, and nurtur'd at my breast." — 



Back as from death he sprung, with wild amaze 



Fierce on the fair he fix'd his ardent gaze; 



Dropp'd on one knee, his frandc arms outspread, 



And stole a guilty glance towards the bed; 



Then breath'd from quivering hps a whisper'd vow. 



And bent on heaven his pale repentant brow; 



'' Thus, thus ! " he cried, and plung'd the furious dart. 



And hfe and love gush'd mingled from his heart. 



Darwin. 



The " sound" botanist will also find no plant that can better illustrate the calyx. 



He should indeed suffer each person to enjoy his own peculiar pleasure. There are some 

 rigid men who even condemn this pursuit altogether, having not taste enough to relish the 

 beauties of the creation. The poet thus reproves them : 



Why brand these pleasures with the name 

 Of soft, unsocial toils, of indolence and shame? 

 Search but the garden, or the wood; 

 Let yon admir'd Carnation own. 

 Not all was meant for raiment or ^or food, 

 Not all for needful use alone : 

 There, while the seeds of future blossoms dwell, 

 Tis colour d for the sight, perfum d to please the smell, 



Why 



