134 CARNATIONS AND PINKS 



varieties and of hybrids, resulting from crossings 

 both intentional and spontaneous. 



It is a plant of firm texture, easily grown in 

 gardens, where it is sometimes used as an edging. 

 In its rocky homes it forms wide tufts, in half- 

 sunny rather than wholly exposed places. 



D. callizonus (Schott & Kotscfy). The brightest 

 of all the mountain Pinks, and one of the most 

 sought for in gardens. Caespitose, with linear- 

 lanceolate, pointed leaves, wide in the middle and 

 of bluish colour, which at once distinguishes it 

 from D. alpinus. The stalks are one-flowered, from 

 six to nine inches high ; the large flowers are of a 

 tender rosy-carmine colour, with a band of bright 

 red-purple in the centre. The edge of the petals is 

 toothed, and the base thickly set with hairs. It 

 blooms from May to July. We have a variety 

 without the inner belt, but the type is the better 

 flower. Mountains of Transylvania and Wallachia. 

 It is rather difficult to grow. In our hot and dry 

 summer climate we do well with it in the open 

 ground, well drained, composed of one-third sand, 

 one -third leaf -mould, and one -third loam, in a 

 position sheltered from the sun during the greatest 

 heat of the day. 



In the Botanical Garden of La Linnaea, at an 

 altitude of 4000 feet, it grows grandly and flowers 

 abundantly, while at Geneva we have only two or 

 three flowers on the two-year-old tufts. The variety 

 Brandzae, of Pancic, has taller and more slender 

 stems, and untoothed petals. 



