PINK. 45 



which should be planted about Michaelmas, in a 

 soil neither too light nor too heavy or stiff: dunged 

 ground should also be avoided for this plant, as it 

 occasions it to rot. 



The Sweet- William is too formal a flower to 

 grace the alabaster or china vase, and its want of 

 perfume also unfits it for the saloon ; yet it is a 

 favourite in country bough-pots, from the long 

 duration of its flowers, which continue to give 

 fresh blossoms in the water, and which being gene- 

 rally of a paler colour than those which had ex- 

 panded in the open air, the umbel becomes a mot- 

 tled mass of variegated petals. 



THE CHINA, oil INDIAN PINK. Dianthus 

 Chinensis. 



With hues on hues expression cannot paint, 

 The breath of nature and her endless bloom. 



Thomson-. 



This gaily-painted flower, which we have borrowed 

 from the fertile soil of China to decorate the ^ar- 



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dens of Europe, seems to form a link between the 

 Sweet- William and the fragrant Pink, partaking 

 in some measure, of the character of each : in rich- 

 ness of colour it excels the former flower, and its 



