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margins of shrubberies ; the finer kinds 

 in beds, with the florists' flowers. It 

 is a biennial in cold soils, but a 

 perennial in warm ones. Seed. 



Dianthus caesius (Cheddar Pink}. A 

 dwarf, very glaucous, densely tufted 

 kind, 6 to 8 in. high. Flowers, in 

 early summer; delicate rose, very 

 fragrant, generally solitary ; scales of 

 calyx roundish, short ; petals crenated, 

 pubescent. Leaves, very glaucous, 

 short, with rough margins. On 

 mountains in Europe, and in England 

 on limestone rocks at Cheddar, in 



Somersetshire. The rock-garden, 



old walls and ruins, and dry, sandy, 

 or calcareous borders. Seed and 

 careful division. 



Dianthus Caryophyllus (Carnation). 

 The parent of our Carnations, Pi- 

 cotees, and Clove Pinks ; 1 to 3 ft. 

 high. Flowers, in summer ; all colours 

 except blue, solitary; scales of the 

 calyx 4, very short, ovate, rather 

 mucronate ; petals, broad and beard- 

 less ; stem branched. Leaves, linear- 

 awl - shaped, channelled, glaucous. 



Europe and England. The finer 



named kinds in beds, with the florists' 

 flowers ; in the kitchen-garden, grown 

 for the sake of their cut flowers, 

 or in borders, in various ways. It 

 prefers a sound loam, with sharp 

 sand, and decomposed manure. 

 Where there are old ruins and the 

 like, the single forms might be 

 established upon them with good 

 effect. Layers, cuttings, and seed. 



Dianthus cruentus (Blood-scarlet 

 Pink). A slender kind, with deeply 

 coloured flowers, many in a head ; 1 to 

 2 ft. high. Flowers, in summer; 

 small, numerous, of a bloody-scarlet 

 colour, arranged in contracted, many- 

 flowered, somewhat globose cymes ; 

 petals, 3 in. long, toothed, bearded 

 towards the base with scattered red- 

 dish - violet hairs ; calyx tubular, 

 reddish-violet above, streaked, and 



ending in 5 very acute teeth. Leaves, 

 linear-lanceolate, very acute, those 

 of the stem in 3 or 4 pairs, connate 

 for the space of | in., 3- nerved under- 

 neath, much shorter than the inter- 

 nodes ; lower leaves growing in tufts ; 

 all smooth, and scarcely glaucescent ; 

 stems slightly squared in the upper 



part. Native country unknown. 



Borders, banks, or the rougher parts 

 of rockwork, in free soil. Seed. 



Dianthus deltoides (Maiden PinJc).-~ 

 Forms dense, almost grassy tufts, 

 with flowering- stems 6 to 9 in. high. 

 Flowers, in summer ; bright pink with 

 a dark circle, sometimes white ; scales 

 of the calyx 4, ovate-lance-shaped, 

 acute ; stem ascending, branched, 1- 

 flowered. Leaves, lower ones oblong, 

 obtuse ; upper ones narrower, acute, 

 pubescent. D. deltoides glaucus is a 

 variety with the stem and leaves 

 slightly glaucous, and white flowers 

 with a dark circle. Europe, Asia, and 



Britain, but not found in Ireland. 



Borders and rockwork in ordinary 

 garden soil. Division and seed. 



Dianthus dentosus (A moor pink). 

 A dwarf but sturdy and large-flowered 

 species, 5 or 6 in. high. Flowers, in 

 summer ; more than an inch across, of 

 a fine violet -lilac, with a regular dark 

 spot formed of purple streaks at the 

 base of each petal, producing a dark 

 eye in the centre of the flower; the 

 petals toothed at the margin, and 

 bearded at the base. Leaves, linear, 

 rather broad, sometimes slightly un- 

 dulated, glaucous, tinged with a 

 reddish hue, especially in autumn, 

 spreading into broad tufts. Southern 

 Russia and E. Siberia. The rock- 

 garden and borders, in sandy well- 

 drained loam. Seed. 



Dianthus Fischer! (Fischer's Pink.) 

 A beautiful kind, as yet rare, 7 to 

 10 in. high. Flowers, in summer ; 

 light rose, with the petals much cut 

 or feathery at the edges, numerous, in 



