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DiANTHUS — oontirmed. 



D. Chinen'sis — continued. 



though not often, they survive to flower a 

 second season. The following are varieties, 

 viz. : 



D. Chinen'sis Heddewi'gi. This is commonly 

 known as the Japan Pink. The flowers are 

 single, crimson, pink, and white. There are 

 several garden varieties of this. Crimson Belle 

 is a good one with rich brilliant crimson 

 flowers. Eastern Queen is also fine, having 

 delicately marbled flowers of salmon-red with 

 rose and pink. 



D. Chinen'sis Heddewi'gi diadema'tus is a double 

 flowering variety with large blooms of various 

 colours. Mourning Cloak has rich deep 

 crimson blooms, strikingly edged with white. 

 Purity is a pure double white. Fireball is 

 another novelty, having double scarlet-crimson 

 flowers. 



D. Chinen'sis Heddewi'gi lacinia'tus is a pretty 

 strain, having fringed or frilled edges. There 

 are double and single garden forms. Lucifer is 

 a new variety of dazzling orange- scarlet, the 

 most brilliant of all. Height 12 ins. Salmon 

 Queen, of which there are single and double 

 varieties, is a salmon-red shading to pink. 

 Zonalis has fringed salmon-red petals with a 

 distinct deep purple inner ring. Royal Pinks 

 has large fringed single flowers about 3 ins. 



