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weeks they will be sufficiently rooted to move. Carna- 

 tions are sometimes raised from pipings, but they are not 

 so sure as Pinks to take root. This variety is often called 

 the Paisley Pink, on account of its having been raised in 

 the highest perfection among the weavers near Paisley, in 

 England. A good Pink should have a strong, elastic, and 

 erect stem, not less than one foot high. The petals should 

 be large and broad, Avith very fine-fringed edges, the 

 nearer rose-leaved the better. The ground- work of the 

 flower should be pure white, or rose-colored, with a dark, 

 rich crimson, or purple eye, resembling velvet ; if nearly 

 black, so mnch the richer. A delicate margin, or lacing, 

 romid the entire petal, if of the color of the eye, increases 

 its beauty. The flower should be from two to two and a 

 half inches in diameter. 



D. Chinensis* — China Pink. — This S2)ecies is a biennial 

 of dwarf habits ; of great beauty, but without fragrance. 

 The foliage is of a yellowish green. It flowers from seed 

 the first year ; it is perfectly hardy, and flowers strong the 

 second year. The colors are exceedingly rich ; crimson, 

 and dark shades of that color approaching to black, are 

 often combined in the same flower, with edgings of white, 

 pink, or other colors. Seed, saved from double flowers, 

 will produce a great portion of double varieties. In beds 

 where there may be a hundred plants, scarcely two will 

 be found alike. They are in flower a number of months. 

 Of this species a number of fine dwarf varieties, not more 

 than six inches high, have been obtained. D. latifolius. 

 Broad-leaved Pink, is a variety of D. Chinensis^ very or- 

 namental; it has oblong-lanceolate leaves; flowers crimson 

 and various shades of red ; in bloom all the season ; an 

 imperfect perennial. A Pink, called CooJc's mule^ is a 

 beautiful hybrid, somewhat like the Broad-leaved Pink. 

 The flowers are of the deepest crimson, very double, and 

 appear in succession through the season. 



