PINK WILD FLOWERS 
or a tiny pair of leaflets just below the calyx, 
Double flowers are not at all uncommon, and they 
are unusually attractive. As a tule, single and 
double flowers are not found in the same group. 
After the flowers mature, the calyx frequently 
splits apart and causes the fading petals to have 
a most dilapidated appearance, and October finds 
the storm-tossed stalks withered and broken—a 
sorry contrast to its midsummer gaiety. 
DEPTFORD PINK 
Didnthus Arméria. Pink Family. 
A pretty, unobtrusive immigrant from Europe is 
the Deptford Pink, resembling the familiar Sweet 
William of our gardens, and to which it is a near 
relative. When one considers that this Pink belongs 
to the same family as the famous Lawson Pink of ten- 
thousand dollar parentage, it is not difficult to imagine 
that it feels ill at ease and out of its class in our fields 
and meadows, or along our grassy roadsides, where 
it has become thoroughly naturalized. It is a stiff, 
erect annual, growing from six to eighteen inches high, 
and is covered with very fine hairs. The slender 
green stalk is slightly branching. The long, narrow 
pointed leaves are strongly ribbed, downy surfaced, 
and firm-textured. They occur in alternating pairs, 
which unite and clasp the stem with a prominent 
joint. The lower ones are blunt at the tip. The small, 
five-petalled flowers usually occur in pairs, terminally 
clustered or springing from the axils of the leaves on 
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