DIANTHUS. 
summer with the small Campanulas. Its normal hour is the first or 
second week in June. It seeds freely, and comes well from cuttings 
or divided pieces, but in districts where such pests prevail should 
carefully be guarded from wireworm. 
D. anatolicus forms a dense mat of shoots half shrubby from a 
woody stock, and sends up foot-high stems that sometimes even attain 
three. These carry pale-pink flowers at the end, yellowish beneath, 
and with the petals bluntly scalloped. The secondary flowers are 
borne on very short foot-stalks, and so seem to sit quite close to the 
stem. From Sipylus, with a variety D. a. Kotschyanus, smaller in 
the flower. 
D. angulatus, an Indian species, is close cousin to D. Liboschitzianus 
and D. Jacquemontii, g.v., with petals deeply toothed. 
D. anticarius ; from 2 to 3 feet high, with glaucous blue leaves and 
fairly large blooms, solitary at the ends of the stems, purple-red with 
toothed petals. (Rocks of South Spain.) 
D. arboreus is a strange distinct Southern species, forming stout 
bushes about 3 feet high and 5 feet through, of handsome green 
foliage broad and lush of effect, all over which shoot out long stems 
bearing noble flowers of bright pink, several in a head, but not all 
trying to open at once, so that the effect is unspoiled by overcrowding. 
It blossoms all the summer and is quite hardy, but, as it comes from 
far down on the Mediterranean coasts, it should have a very warm 
sheltered corner in very deep light soil or moraine, as well as ample 
room to develop its full magnificence. 
D. arenarius, related to D. squarrosus, is much laxer in the habit, 
with fewer flower-stems, taller and frailer and larger, with very fringy 
whirligigs of white or pale pink. It does not dislike a cool and shady 
position so much as the rest, and blooms through late summer and 
autumn. 
D. aridus,a species akin to D. Friwaldskianus, erect-growing to 
about 9 inches, with two or three rather small pale yellow blossoms. 
D. aristatus is a native of dry rocks in Armenia, where it forms a 
close hoar-frosted grey mass, with 8-inch stems and pink flowers, 
yellowish underneath, and deeply toothed at the edge. 
D. Armeria is the Deptford Pink, a feeblish annual of no worth. 
D. Arrostii.—A plant of no merit near D. pallens. 
D. arvernensis. See under D. caesius. 
D. asperulus, a 6- or 12-inch Cluster-head from the cliffs of Armenia. 
D. atrorubens is a Cluster-head common in the Alps, with stems 
about 6 or 9 inches high, and flowers of comparatively large size for 
the section, and of the most gorgeous velvety scarlet-crimson. More 
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