16 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 
White Sunday or a Pink Sunday, but simply the “ fiftieth.” 
From “Pentecost,” however, we have not only the name of a 
festival of the Church, but the name of a flower and of a 
colour, and of a process that has melancholy suggestions 
—that of “pinking.”” By a roundabout but not uncertain 
process, a pink becomes an eye, and also anything that 
glitters. The French term for the flower is c7//ef, an eye, 
or eyelet, and it is in accordance with the most common 
mutations of words to find that pins is a merely sharpened 
form of the older word 4iv/, and this again a departure 
from wink, and, following this up, we attain to the Anglo- 
Saxon wincian, or, as we have it in common parlance, 
winking, a movement of the lids of the eyes. A pilot’s 
boat is sometimes called a “pink,” and the scar resulting 
from a wound is also called by the same name. Thus, in 
Cowper’s expostulation, “ pink’d” means marked with 
stabs— 
“ He tound thee savage, and he left thee tame ; 
Taught thee to clothe thy pink’d and painted hide, 
And grace thy figure with a soldier's pride.” 
