BOEDER PINKS. 



Dianthus pliaitarins. 



an easy matter to write 

 Dianthus plumarius, and 

 then regard the name as 

 a sign that we have traced 

 the pink to its source. 

 But here, as elsewhere, 

 there is room for difference 

 of opinion, because between 

 the wild flower and the 

 flower of the garden there 

 is a great gulf fixed. It 

 is convenient to regard D. 

 caryopliyllus as the origin 

 of the carnation, and the 

 species named above as the 

 origin of the pink, but 

 other species come near 

 to both flowers, and in 

 their garden forms the two 

 sweet old favourites are 

 very distinct. All the allied 

 forms may be termed mural 

 plants, for the Cheddar pink loves limestone rocks, the 

 wild clove is the "castle pink" of poetry, the pheasantV 



