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with broad leaves at the base, and terminating in an open branched 

 head of flowers ; the flowers nearly 1^ inch in diameter, produced 

 continuously through the summer, single, vivid glowing crimson 

 of slightly varying shades. It was a bright-coloured and beautiful 

 border flower. 



Dianthus chinensis Heddewigii . Carter & Co. 



A beautiful form of Indian Pink, of dwarf sturdy habit, with very 

 large flowers, richly varied in colour : crimson and rose in various 

 shades, and variously mottled in darker and lighter tints, being 

 predominant. The best formed and most richly-coloured flowers 

 are exceedingly beautiful additions to the flower-garden, and these 

 only should be perpetuated, the many inferior ones being dis- 

 carded. They are charming plants, both for the garden and for 

 pot-culture for the greenhouse and conservatory, 



Dianthus chinensis laciniatus . . . Carter & Co. 

 This, though perhaps not permanently distinct from Heddewigii, 

 difiered more or less obviously in being of taller and more slender 

 habit, with the flowers more deeply jagged at the edge : it was 

 also more varied in colour ; in some of the varieties the flowers 

 were very well formed, while in others they were narrow and 

 loose. It was, however, inferior to Heddewigii, on account of its 

 loose habit, and narrower-petaled flowers. 



Dianthus chinensis imperiaUs . . | .^^^ ^ ^''■ 

 A very handsome ordinary form of Indian Pink ; the flowers 

 moderately large, mostly double, and beautifully variegated, the 

 colours being chiefly rose and rosy-purple, with darker markings. 



Dianthus hybridus corymbosus . . Van HourcE. 

 A broad-] eaved mule Pink, not very attractive in colour, the 

 flowers being single, and for the most part of a dullish purple or 

 rosy-purple colour. 



Dianthus hybridus Laxtoni . Carter & Co. 



A mule Pink, of mixed character, and, like the last, not very 

 attractive, compared with others of similar habit. 



Erysimum arkansanum .... Carter «S 



. asperum 



Thompson. 



^ vigorous and showy species, growing 2 feet high and upwards. 



