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But the numerous varieties, both double and single, are 
the sweetest and most charming of hardy garden plants. 
The flowers of the type form are white, and the plant is 
easily raised from seed or cuttings (see p. 45). 
D. rupestris (syn., D. virgineus)—The Virgin Pink. 
This is figured in the Bot. Mag., Tab. 1740, from speci- 
mens sent by Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney, in 1814. It 
is a pretty species, with pink flowers borne on stems about 
2 feet high. 
D. superbus.—A very desirable species. It is well 
known and widely distributed in Germany, Switzerland, 
France, and Denmark. It is mentioned by Clusius in 1601, 
who found it growing in moist meadows about Vienna, 
some with white, others with purplish flowers. All the 
old authors agree as to its delightful perfume. Parkinson 
writes of it as “of a moft fragrant fent, comforting the 
fpirits and fenfes afarre off.” The petals are divided very 
finely. Seeds are produced freely. (Bot. Mag., Tab. 297.) 
D. superbus Gardneri (Gardner's) —A variety of D. 
superbus, with very large flowers of a better form. 
The species already mentioned are the best of those in 
cultivation. It may be added that in the Index Kewensis 
there is a list of more than three hundred species of 
Dianthus. 
