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DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS. 



CLOVE CARNATION. 



Class, DECANDRIA. Order, DYGYNIA. 



Natural Order, CARYOPHYLLE^. 



As there is no plant more valued for its beauty 

 and fine scent than the carnation, so no one has 

 received more attention from the flower-gardener. 

 In regard of this plant, cultivation has done 

 wonders ! When we consider the diminutive 

 appearance of the wild clove, as it grows on the 

 walls of Rochester castle in Kent, and on other 

 its native places on the Continent, and compare 

 it with its splendid offspring, such as Fulhrook^s 

 Grenadier^ rising four or five feet high, we know 

 not which to admire most ; the triumphant per- 



