2 Select Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks. 
altilis, Carnations, and the double Cloave Gillofers. 
Two pages further on Dodoens mentions other 
names in use such as “ Vetonica Coronaria; in Eng- 
lish garden Gillofers, Cloave Gillofers, and the 
greatest and bravest sorte of them are called 
Coronations or Cornations.” | From these various 
spellings it 1s evident that the word Carnation is a 
corruption of coronaria, a garland flower. Gillofers 
in hke manner would seem to be a corruption of 
Carophyllus, which underwent a variety of spelling, 
such as Garryophyllis, Gelovers, Gelouers, and 
Gelyflours, till in Gerard’s time we find the words still 
further corrupted to Gillefloure and Gillofloure. 
John Parkinson used Gilloflower (guasz July 
flower); hence the modern Gillyflower and July 
flower. 
At what period the Carnation took rank as a 
garden flower there is no record, but it was probably 
amongst the earliest cultivated for its delicious | 
aromatic fragrance and beauty. About 1568 
Turner, in his “ Herball,’ says “ The gardin Gelovers 
are made so pleasant and swete with the labours and 
the witt of man, and not by nature.” Like most 
other flowers of 300 or 400 years ago, it was re- 
garded as of medicinal value, for Dodoens says that 
“the conserve of the flowers, made with sugar, 
comforted the harte, and the use thereof is good 
against hoate fevers and the pestilence.” 
Alphonse de Candolle does not mention it in 
“The Origin of Cultivated Plants.” It must have 
been cultivated for a considerable period previous 
to 1578, for in Dodoens’ “ Historie of Plantes” of 
that date, an illustration shows a sturdy plant with 
good foliage and double flowers not unlike the Old 
Clove of modern times, but having more deeply 
fringed petals. 
At that time this double type was known as 
Gillofers, double Clove Giullofers, garden Giullofers 
and Carnations. Even then divers sorts of various 
colours existed, such as white, carnation, lively flesh 
colour, bright red, dark red and speckled. All were 
sweet-scented like cloves. The latter name would 
seem to have been suggested both from the shape of 
the flower buds and the scent like that of the clove 
of commerce. The Clove Gillofers of those days 
were only known as cultivated subjects, being “set 
and planted in the gardens of this country.” In 1727, 
Bradley spelt the word Jully-flower and the trans- 
