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and carries the grains of chlorophyll along with it. M. Roze 

 believes, therefore, that the motion is a plasmic one, the proto- 

 plasm being the vital and animating part of the cell. 



CARNATIONS AND PINKS. 



Among the latest flowers of the autumnal garden are those 

 old favourites, the " July-flowers," or Carnations, which, because 

 they were " fair and sweet and medicinal," Jeremy Taylor pre- 

 ferred to " the prettiest tulips, that are good for nothing." I 

 remember a time when they were among the best-prized orna- 

 ments of our parterres, and very delicious it was to inhale the 

 balmy breath that rose into the warm air of an autumn evening 

 from rich masses of carnations and pinks. The carnations 

 were also called stib consume Planco in the merry days when 

 I haunted the green lanes of a pretty Devonshire village, 

 carnations, and clove July-flowers or gilliflowers; and an 

 ancient name for the pink was that of sops-in-wine, because 

 they were infused in the wine-cups of our much-drinking 

 ancestors. So Drayton says : 



" Bring hither the pink and purple columbine, 



With gilliflowers ; 



Bring coronations, and sops-in-wine, 

 Worn of paramours." 



The same poet alludes to them under their more modern 

 appellations : 



" The brave carnation, then, of sweet and sovereign power 

 (So of his colour called, although a July flower), 

 With the other of his kind, the speckled and the pale ; 

 Then the odoriferous pink, that sends forth such a gale 

 Of sweetness, yet in scents as various as in sorts." 



