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small sticks in the places, lo prevent their being disturbed by the 

 spring digging of the ground. 



The only culture the plants in general require after they appear, 

 is that of thinning them in a proper manner, according to circum- 

 stances, and keeping them free from weeds. And in the petenial 

 sorts removing the stems in the autumn. 



These plants afford much ornament and variety in the different 

 compartments of pleasure-grounds, and they succeed in most soils 

 and situations, being of hardy growth. 



2. DIANTHUS BARBATUS. 



SWEET WILLIAM. 



THIS genus furnishes plants of the herbaceous flowery orna- 

 mental kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Decandria Digyiiict, and ranks in 

 the natural order of Caryophyllei. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a cylindric perianthiurn. 

 tubular, striated, permanent, five-toothed at the mouth, surrounded 

 at the base with four scales, of which the two opposite are lower: 

 the corolla has five petals, claws length of the calyx, narrow, inserted 

 into the receptacle: border flat; the plaits outwardly wider, obtuse, 

 crenate: the stamina consist of ten subulate filaments, length of the 

 calyx, with spreading tips: anthers oval-oblong, compressed, incum- 

 bent: the pistillum is an oval germ: styles two, subulate, longer 

 than the stamens: stigmas bent back, acuminate: the pericarpium is 

 a cylindric capsule, covered, one-celled, gaping open at top four 

 ways: the seeds a great many, compressed, roundish: receptacle free, 

 four-cornered, shorter by half than the pericarpium. 



The species chiefly cultivated in the garden are: 1. D.barbatus, 

 Sweet William, or Bearded Pink; 2. D. caryophillus, Clove Pink, or 

 Clove Gilliflower; 3. D. ddtoides, Common or Madder Pink; 4- D. 



