florist, that the difficulty of determining species will not occasion sur- 
prise. Phillips, in his Flora Historica, has justly said, “ England, as 
well as Spain, France, Germany, and most other temperate and warm 
climates, possess a native Pink, but to state how many of them have 
been changed by cultivation, and from which each peculiar variety first 
sprang, would be as arduous a task as to attempt to define the pa- 
rentage of each peculiar apple, which, like the Pink, owes its excel- 
lence and variety to the labours of the cultivator. And the Pink, like 
the apple, continues to demand the attention of man to preserve it from 
degenerating into its original insignificance ; for although the hand of 
the gardener can double and triple the petals of the Pink, he cannot 
render their beauties permanent, for nature seems to have allowed her 
works to bear a temporary improvement only, in order to create indus- 
trious habits in man, her most noble and finished work.” 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMES. 
aradpendeiine Atos, DIOB; Giving; Av@os, AWEROS; a weiss ; th 
long 
the beauty ie , edpecially 
those varieties of the Dianthus eke Ses termed carnations, picotees, and 
common pinks. FErrrucinevs, from the rusty purple colour of the ordinary 
variety. Su.rpHurevs, from the sulphur-yellow colour of the variety here 
figured, 
SyNONYMEs. 
Diantuus Ferrucrnevs is the only name 7% the species has borne since’ 
it was first given by Linneus in his Mantissa, 56. 
