The two fineft Kinds of Rofe Campion are the 
double purple, and the double white ftained with 
red, called the Maiden’s Blufh. dhe former ad 
A COMPLEAT BODY 
thefe does beft in the free Ground, the latter in Sika 
a Pot. 
5. COMMON GARDEN PINK. 
Ph 43. 
Fig. 5. would be efteemed : but they are fo like it, and 
fo much fuperior, that it is feen in an ill- light in 
the Comparifon. | ago nee 
We have obferved before, that they err who 
fuppofe the Carnation raifed from it by Culture, 
the Species is different: but , as the Clove July- 
flower, under the curious Gardener’ s Hand, pro- 
duces all the Variety of that elegant Flower, this 
common Pink affords feveral beautiful Varieties. © 
All the old Writers have mentioned it; and 
under the general Name Ghryopigyias' xe add 
vulgaris and hortenfis. 
_ C. Bauuine calls it Caryophyllus fi wibibe flore 
- minore pallide rubente, and Lobel Caryophyllus flore 
— pallido fuave rubente. 
_ We have had Occafion to obferve before, that 
Linnzvus has changed ‘the generical Name in | 
this Inftance, and calls the Plant Dianthus: he 
adds as the Diftinétion of this Species, floribus fo- 
—iitariis fquammis calycimis lanceolatis binis, corollis 
crenatis: fingle flowered’ Dianthus, with the two 
Scales of the Cup {pear pointed, and the Petals 
indented. 
_ The Root is eases of numerous ied and 
tough Fibres, connected to a fmall Head. 
__ The Stalks are weak, and lie in part upon the 
Ground, they are very numerous; their Colour is 
a pale greyifh green, and their Height abit a 
Foot. 
The Leaves are placed in Pairs, and the Stalks 
at the Origin of every Pair have a round Joint 
or Knot: they are narrow, pointed, of a firm Sub- 
ftance, and of a whitifh green. 7 
The Flowers are numerous: One always 
_ crowns the principal Stalk, and there are. feveral 
others on the Tops of Side-fhoots ; they are na- 
turally of a pale Flefh Colour, with a Crown of 
a deeper. Colour in the Centre. 
Each is placed in a long cylindrick Cup, at the 
Bafe of which is a fmaller, compofed of pointed 
Seales? °° | 
The Petals are five; they have long narrow 
Bafes, ‘and they are deeply cut and jagged at the 
Edges. Ten Filaments ftand within as in the 
Carnation, ‘with two Styles; thefe refer the Plant 
to the fame Clafs- and Section, the Decandria 
Digynia. 
Culture of this Pink. 
The Plant is a Native of moft Parts of Europe; 
and wherever the Chance of Winds:has ‘thrown it 
by Seeds blown from Gardens, it: thrives’ as well 
in England. wild, as with all the Affiftance of Art. 
Where it is Native, the Soil which favours it 
3 
If there were no Carnations the common Pink 4 moft -is s ‘rocky, ae, and aren: 
for Seed ; 
in the fame 
Manner we never fee the F lower in greater Per- 
-feétion than when the {Cattered Seeds have ftruck 
‘upon a Wall, and the Plant hangs, wildly wanton- 
ing in the Winds, from ‘the Coping. ~ 
Something like this we fhould attempt in Gar- 
dens; and as “tis the Bufinefs of ingenious Art 
to improve upon the Hints given by Nature, our 
Endeavour fhould be to sive the Plant as dry 
and warm a Soil as “it ives wild; but not -fo 
barren. - 
On this dry Quality of the Earth in which it 
oTOWS, depends the Fragrance of the F lowers. 
That Quality is ina great Meafure loft when the 
Plant has an ill chofen Soil; but in the perfect - 
State of Nature it is! of | a ‘fine Smell at a con- 
fiderable Diftance. 
The common Way of propagating Pinks j is by 
Layers, which they produce in Abundance, and » 
which take root very readily : but’this limits the — 
Gardener. to a few Kinds; and as he generally 
plants thefe at random, ‘without regard to the 
Soil. or Expofure, they feldom: attain: their fully 
Beauty. The true Method is to: raife them from 
Seed, and he who fees. the Effect will never think 
the Trouble to have been too greats; -) | 
The Soil I have found to fucceed, bett Heh the, 
Pink is a Mixture of good dry Pafture Earth, 
and the Rubbith of an old Wall ; about one fifth, 
of the latter is a fit Proportion; but. ’tis an. 
effential Article that. the,. Mixture lie.a-Year be-- | 
fore it is ufed. : 
In the Seafon let fome good Plants be marked. 
thefe fhould be fuch as have the firmeft 
Stalks and faireft F lowers... 
Let the Seed be faved sith the ateal Care; 
and in the Beginning of the April following, let 
it be’ fown’ in the Nurfery on a Bed of Pafture 
‘Earth, without any Mixture, frefh taken up, and 
broke extreamly fine. A Quarter of an Inch of 
the fame Mould muft be fifted over them; and 
when the Bed is dry a little, Water mutt be given 
with great Care. 
In the Beginning of May the Plants will ap- 
pear, and about the Middle of Fune they will be. 
fit to remove. 
A Bed muft be then prepared with the Com- 
poft ; and Lines being drawn at four Inches Dif- 
tance along and acrofs, the young Plants muft be. 
brought in and ‘placed, one in the Middle of 
every Square. They muft be watered at Times 
till they have taken root; and weeded carefully. 
In the latter End of Auguft they muft be again 
tranfplanted into another Bed of the fame Com- 
poft, and allowed eight Inches Diftance. They 
mutt 
