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climate must be wintered in a dry wooden cold pit, 

 after the manner of the perennial varieties of wall- 

 flowers, tender roses, and the like. 



I emphasize the words dry wooden in connection 

 with a cold pit from my experience in seeking to make 

 mine permanent by replacing the planks, with which 

 it was built and which often decayed, by stone work, 

 with most disastrous results, causing me to lose a fine 

 lot of plants by mildew. 



The truly hardy pinks (dianthus plumarius), the 

 fringed and clove-scented species both double and 

 single of old-time gardens, that bloom in late spring 

 and early summer, are called variously May and grass 

 pinks. Her Majesty is a fine double white variety 

 of this class, and if, in the case of double varieties, 

 you wish to avoid the risk of getting single flowers, you 

 would better start your stock with a few plants and 

 subdivide. For myself, every three or four years, I 

 sow the seed of these pinks in spring in the hardy seed 

 bed, and transplant to their permanent bed early 

 in September, covering the plants lightly in winter 

 with evergreen boughs or corn stalks. Leaf litter or 

 any sort of covering that packs and holds water is 

 deadly to pinks, so prone is the crown to decay. 



In the catalogues you will find these listed under the 



