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Dianthus, or China Pinks. 
HENDERSON’S “CROWN OF PERFECTION.” 
(Dianthus Heddewigii Hybrida Grandiflora, fl. pl.) 
One of the most beautiful and satisfactory of summer-flowering annuals. Unri- 
valed for brilliancy and rich variety of color, the plants are bushy, of symmetrical 
form, about 1 foot. The flowers are immense, averaging 6 inches in circumference, 
are densely double, and are produced in perfect succession during the whole summer 
and autumn in such numbers as fairly to crowd each otherforroom. Thereisa 
wonderful diversity of colors, from pures satiny-white to red shades so deep and 
intensely brilliant that the eye can searcely penetrate their velvety depths; soft 
pinks and flesh tints more dainty than brush could lay; and a large proportion of 
flowers hieroglyphically marked with various hues, the delicate tints and deep tones 
a silver dollar.” 
Dianthus Heddewigii 
Ornatus. Large single 
flowers of a striking 
combination of colors; 
blood-red toward the 
centre, striped and 
marbled with maroon, 
while the margin of the 
flower is distinctly bor- 
dered with white. 
Pkt. .15 
aPuANGeAReE GRASS, BORDER, FEATHER or SPICE PINKS. 
(Dianthus Plumarius Hydridus Nanus, fl. pl.) 
These are great improvements over the charming time-honored inhabitant of old-fashioned gardens. 
The flowers of this new type are much larger, are borne more profusely on shorter, stiff stems. In 
these new pinks we have a large variety of colors and markings, the color, of course, refers to the center 
of the flower, the remainder being white or blush, with a band of color near the margin; the colors in- 
clude blood-red, rose, maroon, purple, pink, blush, spotted, laced, variegated, etc., and they commence 
blooming about two weeks earlier. 
They are excellent perennial garden plants, about 1 foot high when in bloom; they are vigorous, very 
hardy, and flower profusely during spring and early summer; the flowers are very large, usually very 
double, beautifully fringed, and emit a grateful clove-like perfume. Mixed ColofrsS................00+ Pkt. .25 
Perpetual Cyclop Pink, “EDMUND MAUTHNER.” 
This belongs to the “‘ Pheasant’s-Eye”’ type (Dianthus plumarius semperflorens), from which it is a 
grand new hybrid. The plants are stout and bushy, about 10 inches high, bearing continuously during 
the summer immense single fragrant flowers of rich bright red, intensified by the large garnet zone 
around the eye ; perfectly hardy, fine for either garden effect Or fOr CUTTING.........:cceeeceeceeecceece cress Pkt. .25 
mingling in exquisite contrast. (See cut.) [Mixed Colors...... womans sae atssessee tr KUhe lO, 
“IT want to tell you how splendidly my seeds did this year, especially the 
CROWN OF PERFECTION PINKS. I never saw anything so beautiful; 
they are a blaze of bright colors, and some of the blossoms are larger than 
LILITH V. PINCHBECK, West Troy, N. ¥. 
GIANT “RUFFLED ano FRILLED” DIANTHUS. 
A magnificent new strain of these ever-popular Garden or China Pinks. The 
flowers are of noble size, averaging 3 to 4 inches across. The petals are ruffled, 
frilled and fringed, lending grace and beauty to the gorgeously colored blossoms 
which range from dark blood-red to glowing crimson, carmine-rose, salmon-pink 
and white: some of the flowers are mottled and blended with two or more shades. 
The plants are bushy and compact, about 1 foot high, and flower abundantly 
through summer and fall. 
Dianthus are of unapproachable beauty. (See (D105) \epeeseecoas oeceacereom-cbons-conca! 24 oA) 
For garden decoration and for cut flowers these new 
NEW DWARF EARLY-FLOWERING GRASS PINKS. 
around the eye; perfectly Rardy, Ane for either garden eflect or for eutting...1tincuewnce ety 28 01 NEW DW 
Henderson’s “PICTURESQUE GARDENS”? {5 beauttally itustrated new book that will sive T awn, Garden and Grounds. *%ij°* 
you many suggestions about decorating your . 
