66 FAMILIAR GARJOEX FLOWERS. 



eye pink (D. plumariai) has a special love for the walls of 



Ludlow Castle, and the Deptford pink {B. armeria) haunts 



dry chalky banks about Cobham, Higham, and Sandwich, 



and joins with all the rest in hinting to the lover of pinks 



that to grow such flowers well a dry calcareous soil is much 



to be desired. 



We call pinks " old-fashioned " flowers, and perhaps we 



should find them, more often mentioned in old than in 



modern books. Cowper, in his tender lines on his mother's 



picture, includes the pink amongst the favourites of his 



childhood :— 



" Could time, his flight reversed, restore the hours, 

 When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, 

 The violet, the pink, and jessamine, 

 I pricked them into paper with a pin." 



In the " Paradisus " of John Parkinson we have evidence 

 of the importance of these flowers in old English gardens, 

 and it may interest readers of the dry-as-dust school to 

 look upon a pink or carnation in the first place as a true 

 gilly-flower, and next as the true clove that served for 

 the payment of a reserve, or, at all events, as the emblem 

 of acknowledgment in the constitution of a tenure. The 

 authority for this is Turner's paper on the horticulture of 

 the Middle Ages, and it dates from a time when the clove 

 of commerce and the peppercorn were equally unknown. 



Border pinks differ from show pinks only in flowering 

 more freely, and with less perfection of form and colour, 

 many of them being destitute of the " lacing" that is so 

 much valued as a characteristic of the flowers that are 

 grown for exhibition. The show pinks are richly and re- 

 gularly marked with broad bands of colour on each petal, 

 but border pinks are irregulariy marked, or are self-coloured : 



