THE INDIAN PINK. 
Dianthus Chinensis. 
~ ARTABILITY is a common cha- 
racteristic of garden flowers, and 
is the quality on which depends 
very much of the interest they 
excite in the mind of the florist. 
A flower that continues constant 
to its typical character, or but 
rarely manifests a capability of 
varying, will never attain to high 
popularity, no matter how splen- 
did may be its appearance when 
in full dress. The Indian pink 
possesses the charming property 
of changeableness in an especial 
degree, and the consequence is 
that our gardens abound with distinet and rich varie- 
ties that in some instances are so far removed from the 
type that the relationship can only be determined by 
the trained eye of the critical botanist. The splendid 
forms known as anthus Heddewegi, D. giganteus, and 
strains,” of /). 
Chinensis, and it is not unlikely that if they were at this 
D. laciniatus ave all sub-sections, or ‘ 
moment destroyed, they could be reproduced froin’ the 
species within the lifetime of an earnest florist who should 
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