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plant. The growers therefore either raise it artificially in 

 their nurseries or obtain fresh supplies from the hill lands 

 and natural habitats of the south of Europe, where most 

 of the Dianthuses grow wild. 



Professor Asa Gray, in his " Manual of Botany," 

 mentions the following four species of Dianthus as having 

 become naturalized in America: 



D. Armeria, L. (Deptford Pink.) Annual; flowers 

 clustered; bractlets of the calyx and bracts lance-awl-form, 

 herbaceous, downy, as long as the tube; leaves linear, 

 hairy; petals small, rose color with white dots, crenate. — 

 Fields, etc., eastward. July. 



D. PROLiFER, L. Annual, smooth, slender; flowers 

 clustered; bractlets ovate, dry, concealing the calyx; 

 leaves few, narrow, linear, erect; petals small, pink. — N. J. 

 and E. Penn. 



D. DELTOiDES, L. (Maiden Pink.) Perennial; leaves 

 short, narrowly lanceolate, downy and roughish; flowers 

 solitary; bracts ovate, half as long as the tube; petals rose 

 color or white, toothed. — Mich., L. H. Bailey. 



D. BARBATUS, L. (Sweet William.) Perennial; flowers 

 fascicled; leaves large, lanceolate; bracts filiform-attenu- 

 ate, equalling the calyx. — Sparingly spontaneous. 



In addition to these there are quite a number of other 

 Dianthuses or Pinks that are cultivated either in beds or 

 rock gardens, among which the following may be mentioned: 



D. ALPiNus, a favorite rock garden plant, with rose- 

 colored flowers; D. c^sius, called in England, where it 

 grows wild, the Cheddar Pink, a beautiful, hardy Pink 

 with rose-colored flowers; D. chinensis, the Indian or 

 China Pink, a well-known annual, the variety Heddewigii 



