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pink as to be quite jewel-like in their brightness, and 

 there is a white sort which foams over the edgings and 

 into the path with quite distracting results. The Sand 

 Pink, D. arenarius, is quite different in character, form- 

 ing strong tufts of bluish-green foliage, from which rise 

 slender stems, carrying deeply cut white blossoms, very 

 sweetly scented; it likes a light sandy soil and rejoices in 

 a comfortable cranny, if one is to be had. D. petraeus 

 is a small, sweet, fringy, rose-coloured alpine from the 

 Balkans, disliking wet feet in winter, but otherwise of 

 easy culture. D. Seguieri forms nice, upstanding little 

 bushes more than a foot high with light-green leaves and 

 gay purple-spotted, rose-coloured blossoms. D. super- 

 bus is a pretty thing blooming freely the first year from 

 seed. Its tall stems, over two feet in height, carry several 

 lilac-pink fringed blossoms, which, if not allowed to seed, 

 continue all summer. This Pink will grow in the ordi- 

 nary soil of the borders, not requiring a cranny. D. 

 atrorubens is not one of the fragrant Pinks, but its small, 

 rich red blossoms clustered in a flat head like a small 

 Sweet William make up in glow what they lack in other 

 qualities. It remains in bloom for a long time. 



The song of my Pinks is almost at an end, for there re- 

 mains only D. sylvestris, the Wood Pink, which does not 

 like the woods at all, but full sunshine, and which has the 

 reputation of being what Mr. Reginald Farrer would call 

 a "miff" and may prove so here. It is a new acquaint- 

 ance and still occupies a gravelly bed in the nursery, but 



