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the wild original of our Cloves and Carnations, such 

 as Self's, Flakes, Bizarres, Picotees, and lastl}^ but 

 by no means least, the deliciously clove-scented 

 " Painted Ladies." 



Those who are interested in the botany and in 

 the geographical distribution of the cultivated 

 species of Dianthus, shoidd see a paper entitled 

 " The Carnation as a Garden Flower," by the above 

 author, in " Journal Royal Horticultural Society of 

 London,"^ part iii., vol. xii., Avhich also contains the 

 valuable literary results of the Carnation C'on- 

 ference. It is here enough for nie to say that the 

 Carnation was cultivated in England in the time of 

 Edward III, and that it is mentioned by Chaucer 

 (1386) under the name of "Clove Gilofre,^' " to j)iit 

 in ale, whether it be moist or stale." Henry Lyte, 

 who translated the Herbal of Rembrandt Dodoens 

 in 1578, is the first author who uses the modern 

 name " Carnation." 



On the grey limestone wall-tops of the clear old 

 College Gardens at Dublin, I am very thankful to 

 say the wild Carnation is happy and healthy, and 

 blossoms profusely every year. It originally 

 reached us from the ruins of the old Norman 

 Castle at Rochester, sent by the hand of that 

 horticultural " Lady Bountiful," Miss G. Jekyll, of 

 Munstead, who has done so much for the garden- 



* See also " Diaiitlius," by tlie same author, 1889. 



