PINK WILD FLOWERS 



bears a tiny pair of leaflets just below the calyx. 

 Double flowers are not at all uncommon, and they 

 are unusually attractive. As a rule, single and 

 double flowers are not found in the same group. 

 After the flowers mature, the calyx frequently 

 splits apart and causes the fading petals to have 

 a most dilapidated appearance, and October finds 

 the storm - tossed stalks withered and broken a 

 sorry contrast to . its midsummer gaiety. 



DEPTFORD PINK 



Diantbus Armeria. Pink Family. 



A pretty, unobtrusive immigrant from Europe is 

 the Deptford Pink, resembling the familiar Sweet 

 William of our gardens, and to which it is a near 

 relative. When one considers that this Pink belongs 

 to the same family as the famous Lawson Pink of ten- 

 thousand dollar parentage, it is not difficult to imagine 

 that it feels ill at ease and out of its class in our fields 

 and meadows, or along our grassy roadsides, where 

 it has become thoroughly naturalized. It is a stiff, 

 erect annual, growing from six to eighteen inches high, 

 and is covered with very fine hairs. The slender, 

 green stalk is slightly branching. The long, narrow 

 pointed leaves are strongly ribbed, downy surfaced, 

 and firm-textured. They occur in alternating pairs, 

 which unite and clasp the stem with a prominent 

 joint. The lower ones are blunt at the tip. The small, 

 five-petalled flowers usually occur in pairs, terminally 

 clustered or springing from the axils of the leaves on 



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