DIANTHUS. 
with the same lovely dainty flowers on much shorter stalks of 2 or 3 
inches. (D. furcatus may, perhaps, owe something to D. caesius.) 
D. caespitosus makes very dense rosettes, and throws up a number 
of stems with big white flowers, much cut at the edge and often purple- 
eyed. Itisa variety of D. arenarius, either undivided or with sparing 
branches. (Podolia and Taurus.) 
D. caespitosus in gardens is sometimes D. caesius. 
D.x calalpinus is the hybrid occurring freely in every garden 
where D. alpinus and D. callizonus are happy. It is a fine dwarf 
plant of rather glossy leaves and large brilliant flowers, but it does not 
surpass either of its parents, and is so dutiful as hardly to compete 
with them. 
D. callizonus itself is indeed far beyond all competition, incom- 
parably the loveliest of Alpine pinks, running freely underground and 
forming cushions of rich foliage, glaucous, broad, and stiff, from which 
proceed stems of a few inches—in the finest forms only about 2 inches 
—each carrying an even larger, rounder, ampler flower than in the 
type of D. alpinus, in a lighter shade of pink, with a deep band or 
belt of darkness, peppered with minute points of white light. Many 
superstitions attend the cultivation of D. callizonus; it is said to 
prefer shade and to abhor lime—strange quirks, indeed, for a species 
that is only found in hot, sunny, rough places on the limestone Alps of 
Transylvania. But this is not so; division is the chief enemy of this 
Pink; get well-rooted tufts and let them be put out in light rich 
limy loam in sun or shade, but efficiently watered, and there is no more 
reason to fear trouble with this than with D. alpinus, even if the 
plant be perhaps rather less inclined to be a centenarian, and, in 
proportion to its especial beauty, ask for a little special observance 
and protection from the roaring slug that goeth about seeking whom 
he may devour. JD. callizonus, too, often continues sporadically to 
bloom into autumn, long after the first flush of the year is over. 
D. campesiris ; a thing of little worth, in the way of D. deltoeides, 
but no improvement. 
D. carpaticus. See under D. Carthusianorum. 
D. Carthusianorum is the type of the Cluster-heads. Its lank 
ugliness is notorious, of tall naked stem, topped by a tight brown- 
calyxed head, from which spasmodically peep small spotty stars of 
magenta-rose or crimson. Varieties of this are D. C. congestus and 
D.C. uniflorus, D. C. carpaticus, and D.C. vaginatus, often put forward 
with praise as a species. Others in the same undesirable persuasion 
are D. cruentus, taller and looser and paler; D. Carmelitarum, with 
shorter leaves and cinnamon-coloured flowers; OD. atrorubens, 
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