DIAN'THUS BALBI'SII. 
BALBISS PINK. 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
DIGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
caryophyllacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Genoa. 
18 inches. 
Aug., Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1817. 
No. 1127. 
Dianthus, or Jove’s Flower, from dios, anthos, 
of the Greeks. Balbis, a botanist of Turin. 
A tribe of Pinks now present themselves, which 
produce their flower's in close clusters, as in the 
case of Dianthus Balbisii, that are attracting more 
than ordinary notice, and certainly meriting in 
creased attention ; the depth of colouring in some, 
and the variegation in others, makes them exceed- 
ingly ornamental. The wild Pink of our castle 
walls may, too, remind us of the suitableness of 
almost all the numerous species of Pinks for growth 
in such situations, or a similar one — rock- work ; 
where many plants, which require to be somewhat 
exalted from the damp of the common borders, 
will flourish luxuriantly, and endure our winters ; 
which, under usual treatment in the common soil, 
would be destroyed. 
Dianthus Balbisii is not unfrequently raised from 
foreign seeds ; or it may be readily propagated from 
cuttings, taken about Midsummer, and planted in 
a sandy border, under a hand-glass. To establish 
any of the pink tribe on walls, the seed should be 
sown in the crevices, in autumn. 
