I a ada A 
Oe ene AON 
ý 
Clove, 
-Eugenia caryophyllata, or, as some prefer to call the 
; to the birthplace of the name, which, 
the Arabic Qaruniel, eae a the language 
: Goris the “Chickweed, with abe: snowy petals, so 
miia the Mouse e 
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and many ie associating with the aborigines, 
“ae ide our Daisies storage tae foreigners 
t it. No 
be 
the DEE of the 
e Caryo ophyllus aromaticus, a native of the 
may 
earliest ages, 
iei n a ie veineks 
ually to Europe. 
amta eof nee on as well as 
hough Seep 
Gree one, is said to 
m known e 
wever, there 
point h 
of which 
ale as the adopte 
; : collec tive se M Car ook ce, W 
uri 
by 
n struct these e Ta 
Senter in any case is that one named 
Leaving on one side the incon- 
specien and the weeds, we have in Lychnis, 
tripl: e, the Bizarre, 
the Picotee or miy coloured ed Carnations, egian and 
= mes shoga 
» an 
t unique blending of 
pect of colour, it may ae well to 
ee series 
- as a cure, Ww. 
disord 
like that a Pink, has saree | to do with the colou 
“ Pink ” has been sho wn by Dr. Prior to be an ab! 
by ts na of Pentecost, oy species of Dianthus called 
t Ti 
5 
Y 
abridgments as that of 
y and ’m, a single 
letter being ey Es hat ns whe i i 
acknowledges her mistress’ poe ein 
ymology of ‘* 
m ring ent in 
nals, Par Ts gpm or <a aple 
Perhaps it nf uld be por to say that, the grand a 
t employment of flowers in ancient times 
shape appea in the poets 
of the time of Elizabe th ; in Spenser, ne ami who 
herds’ Calenda eautiful 
pastoral 
Oaks, in which the profuse allegory of. the 
Queene gives piace to easy chat upon everyda 
ters in good old fashioned English. It appears aie in 
the translation of Dodonzeus, =j Henry Lyte, w 
i ng of ‘‘ Glovegillofers’ 
> 
VIII., various allied species are figured, 
Betonica, Nothing 
Latin caro, carnis, 
ll 
certainly is more seductive than the o 
pl it- 
but di 2 is only too well known to be full 
for tie ull 
by “the now accepted mt of the Mer ‘ater the 
manner of ie and peac o denote 
a arpa ot pile me Te i which 
—the 
Lord a intends i in ate a line, 
“Sh emporaneous w with | Spenser nser 
and zidi gives it wei 6 er in Henry F., 
act i sc. ii never 
E ey rae ea i re 
much carnation ri may aman buy?’ There can 
be no doubt, however, that coronation is the true 
and original spells and that the meaning of the 
above stated—a flower fit for use E 
Itis nota e curious that i 
la nds, littl 
a of that beautiful Asiatic siliceous stone, 
arnelian, a variety of calcedony, or, as it is sometimes 
and truly 
paei chalcedon and which is really 
derived from 2 of the flesh-colour 
vee it rk sorin, e l Carta r 
r what h wit lation, bei 
pronounced by them cornelian. A singular fa 
m of one ya ve old varieties of the C ion, 
arnat 
este s ago, was ‘“‘ Sops-in-wine,” as in 
300 
Dagio in the Plik 
‘“ Sweet Williams, Campions, Sops-in-wine ;” 
and Spenser and Ben Jonson likewise aes it—the re- 
ference in all three of these Tren the repute 
of the flowers of the Carnation, 
as the vehicle, operated most beneficially upon 
the patient. The flo were also 
sugar. 
When the gr Di apma seg iese ange in 
tivation — 
pcr that 
e 
ful, ee ke this ous: 
the py, the term ‘‘double.” “Evidently, from 
d Bacon, Shakspeare, and the 
the flower had been long 
cherished, and was known by them in ts. 
Perdita, i in e Winter's Tale, act iv., sc 
e year growing a 
an yet on ar’ reihe nor ba p binh 
trembling w paca the he season 
¥ 
Thee is an art whic in their 
th great creating N 
single varieties found in gardens. The soley, ` 
af e fee fear ars of t the “green yee 
the blue Rose never having come into existence, 
when soaked in Sie fee } nervous | 
inions will scarcely differ as to whether 
known to him, that ‘a great and large volume would 
not suffice to write of every one at large in particu- 
.” Some of these many sorts, he says, are called 
unsett 
certain, however, that so far the white ground Picotee 
een quite in the ascendant. 
Special treatises upon the culture of Carnations have 
en produced from time to time—in bygone days by 
Maddock an "a 3, in our o xlenny. Im- 
rovement consists in promoti the first ra 
brea not lapsing into the strap- 
sha areae nor must any of them be deformed, so as to 
call for lady’s-maid work in ‘‘dressing ” the flower. 
clear, From first-class parentag 
about one Plant in ET are wiit bry kaap 
consider ‘‘ good.” e observ hat the 
e rise to 
t remains only to speak of that very curious gm 
or monstrosity called the ‘* W 
wets r” Carnati 
In mh the small rhomboidal bract which surrow sa 
the bas h x are pr analy multiplied in 
num The axis at the same time lengthens, and 
the ern is a long green = aol and quadrangular 
eia no ma different to the a casual observer 
fro beardless Wheat fire green, A 
ae: awe is or double, iat more or less 
imperfect, is usually produc: ax t the extremity, but 
pmen the bracts yg ~ eke aie render- 
ing the resemblance to t ear more 
= Aai The development in Bc ser: corre- — 
observed "i poime. what ma; on I be ho arene 
h y 
the fifteenth erw when it was pur 
the Bellinghams, of Burnside, in whose family 
e reign of James Tt 
me 4 5 a 
