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beautiful kinds, both single and double, are easily raised from 

 seed. Many of .these are valuable for borders and the rougher 

 parts of rockwork. The plant often perishes in winter in cold 

 soils, and although a true perennial in a wild state, and on dry and 

 raised soils, it is one of those plants of which seedlings should 

 be raised every year. A native of gravelly or mountain fields, in 

 various parts of Central and Southern Europe ; the flowers white 

 or rose with white dots. Parkinson, alluding to the varieties 

 of Sweet Williams, says : " We have them in our gardens, where 

 they are cherished for their beautiful variety ; " and speaks of 

 a pretty " speckled kinde, termed by our English gentlemen, for 

 the most part, London Pride." 



DIANTHtrS Cm^TC^.— Cheddar Pink. 



One of the neatest and most attractive of the dwarf Pinks with 

 which rocks and rocky places are studded over so great a portion 

 of the northern and temperate regions of the earth. The short 

 leaves are very glaucous, and the large, fragrant, rosy flowers 

 supported on stems six inches in height^ and sometimes a few 

 inches more if the plant be grown in rich soil. It requires 

 peculiar treatment, as in winter it perishes in the ordinary 

 border, but flourishes freely and flowers abundantly on an old 

 wall. I have seen many dwarf compact cushions of it on walls 

 at Oxford, and should advise anybody who wants to succeed 

 perfectly with it to try-it in a like position. It is a native plant, 

 and grows on the rocks at Cheddar, in Somersetshire, but is 

 found in many parts of Europe besides. To estabhsh it on the 

 top or any part of an old wall, the best way would be to sow 

 the seeds on the wall in a little cushion of moss, if such existed, 

 or, if not, to place a httle earth with the seed in a chink. It 

 may also be grown upon a rockwork in firm, calcareous, sandy, 

 or gritty earth, and, if possible, placed in a chink between 

 two small rocks. Flowers in May and June, and is readily 

 propagated by seeds. 



DIANTHUS CARTOPHYLLtrS.— Car«a/zff«. 



The parent of all the races of Carnations, Picotees, and Clove 

 Pinks, so variously and beautifully coloured and laced, so deli- 

 ciously fragrant, neat in habit, and profuse in flower, as to make 

 them, perhaps, on the whole, the most valuable of our hardy 



