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plumarius, Feathered Pink; 5. D. ccesius, Gray-leaved or Mountain 

 Pink; 6. D. Chinensis, China Pink; 7- D.superbus, Superb Pink. 



The first has a perennial fusiform root: the stems are upright, 

 jointed, smooth, a foot and half high, branched: the leaves, soft, 

 veined, connate, from half an inch to ajmost an inch broad in the 

 widest part, bright green; the bundles of flowers compact, um belled, 

 and sessile. These are of different colours, in different varieties. It 

 is a native of Germany. 



The principal varieties are: the Broad-leaved, or Sweet- Williams: 

 the Narrow-leaved, or Sweet-Johns; with single and double flowers 

 in each. 



The chief of the sub-varieties in the first or broad-leaved kind are, 

 with broad leaves and tall deep red flowers, with tall flesh-coloured 

 flowers, with pure white flowers, with white dotted flowers, with 

 striped leaves and red flowers, large double rose-coloured with sweet- 

 scented flowers, large double with deep purple burster flowers, and 

 with double variegated flowers. 



In the second, or narrow-leaved sort, with narrow leaves and deep 

 red flowers, with pale red flowers, with pale red and flesh-coloured 

 flowers, with purplish white-eyed flowers, with snow-white flowers, 

 with white and flesh-coloured flowers, with white and purple flowers* 

 with white spotted flowers, and with red flowers and white borders, 

 or Painted Lady Sweet- Williams. 



It is observed by Marty n, that the broad-leaved sort, with very 

 double flowers of a deep purple, inclining to blue, bursting the calyx, 

 is not so much esteemed; but that the double Rose Sweet-William, 

 with flowers of a fine deep rose-colour, and smelling sweet, is much 

 valued, as it does not burst. The Mule, or Fairchild's Sweet-Wil- 

 liam, which is one of the narrow-leaved double sorts, supposed to 

 have been produced from seeds of a Carnation impregnated by a 

 Sweet-William; the flowers are of a brighter red than in either of 

 the former; their bunches not quite so large, but the flowers have an 

 agreeable smell. The narrow-leaA'ed kind are in general the most 

 productive of double flowers. 



The second sort, in its natural state, has the root large, woody, 



