VII. LIST OF FLOWERS. 



will not survive the winter unless protected from frost. 

 A very pretty border flower j but should be grown in 



beds, or largish plumps. PINK, the garden. Lat. Di- 



anthus Hortensis. Fr. (Eillet Lacinie. This is supposed 

 to be a variety of the carnation. Its origin is common 

 in England and all over Europe. There are many pretty 

 varieties, and these are on the increase every year in 

 England, the manufacturing people of the north bestowing 

 vast pains in propagating and cultivating them. The 

 plant is smaller in every particular than the carnation, 

 but is its miniature. There are varieties double and single, 

 red, white, and laced. It grows in tufts and sends up 

 many stalks, each bearing a flower j but these tufts 

 .should not be suffered to remain unparted more than one 

 year. Propagate by layers, pipings or seed, just as with 

 the carnation, only that, the pink being much the hardier 

 of the two, you need not bestow the same pains upon it 

 that you must on the carnation. Pipings will strike in 

 the open ground, without any hand-glass over them, but 

 you are surer to succeed by using the glass, and in the 

 manner directed for propagating carnations in the open 

 ground. No plant of this kind should be suffered to 

 blow more than twelve flowers. All above that number 

 should be cut off as they appear in the bud. Any soil 

 almost suits it. 



510. POLYANTHUS. Lat. Primula elatior.Vr. Pri- 

 mevere. An indigenous plant which has been brought to 

 great perfection by the florists. It blows, in March and 

 April, flowers of various colours, red, brown, yellow, 

 purple, and variegated ; the flower stem should rise above 

 the foliage, should be perfectly erect, and send out from 



