DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 197 
weeks they will be sufficiently rooted to move, Carna- 
tions are sometimes raised from pipings, but they are not 
so sure as Pinks to take root. This variety is often called 
the Paisley Pink, on account of its having been raised in 
the highest perfection among the weavers near Paisley, in 
England. A good Pink should have a strong, elastic, and 
erect stem, not less than one foot high. The petals should 
be large and broad, with very fine-fringed edges, the 
nearer rose-leaved the better. The ground-work of the 
flower should be pure white, or rose-colored, with a dark, 
rich crimson, or purple eye, resembling velvet; if nearly 
black, so much the richer. A delicate margin, or lacing, 
yound the entire petal, if of the color of the eye, increases 
its beauty. The flower should. be from two to two and a 
half inches in diameter. 
D. Chinénsis.—China Pink.—This species is a biennial 
of dwarf habits; of great beauty, but without fragrance. 
The foliage is of a yellowish green. It flowers from seed 
the first year; it is perfectly hardy, and flowers strong the 
second year. The colors are exceedingly rich; crimson, 
and dark shades of that color approaching to black, are 
often combined in the same flower, with edgings of white, 
pink, or other colors. Seed, saved from double flowers, 
will produce a great portion of double varieties. In beds 
where there may be a hundred plants, scarcely two will 
be found alike. They are in flower a number of months. 
Of this species a number of fine dwarf varieties, not more 
than six inches high, have been obtained. D. latifolius. 
Broad-leaved Pink, is a variety of D. Chinensis, very or- 
namental; it has oblong-lanceolate leaves; flowers crimson 
and various shades of red; in bloom all the season; an 
imperfect perennial. A Pink, called Cook’s mule, is a 
beautiful hybrid, somewhat like the Broad-leaved Pink. 
The flowers are of the deepest crimson, very double, and 
appear in succession through the season. 
