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GARDEN FLOWERS. 



plant, six to nine inclies high, and the 

 blight-pink or white flowers, with the dark 

 or white ciicle in the centre, grow out of 

 dense tufts of grassy leaves. Then thei'e 

 is the sweet-william of the gardens of 

 earlier days, Diauthus harhatus, 

 with deep crimson flowers, and a 

 height of one to two feet. Final- 

 ly, there is Dianthus plumarius, 

 the garden pink or the cushion pink, forming 

 broad tufts and bearing flowers with beauti- 

 fully fringed petals and a delightfully fragrant 

 odor. It grows only six or eight inches high. 

 Dicentra eximia (plumy bleeding-heart) is a 

 plant from the Alleghany Mountains, nine to 

 eighteen inches high, with leaves as graceful 

 as those of a fern. The flowers are rose-colored, 



and appear all 

 summer, hanging in 

 graceful racemes. 

 The Dicentra spec- 

 fabilis, scarcely less 

 beautiful, comes 

 etirliei'. Iheriscorro}- 

 folia (corris-leaved 

 perennial c a n d y 

 tuft) is a beautiful 

 dwarf evergreen 

 '^1^ shrub, with large 

 pure white flo\vers. 



THE MAIDEN'S PINK (DIANTHU3 DELTOIDES), AND THE NIEREMBERQIA 

 RIVULARIS. 



