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The Garden Magazine, January, 1921 
THE FRAGRANT CHEDDAR PINK 
Equally at home in the American garden as on the cliffs of Cheddar, England, this 
fringed Pink (Dianthus ctesius)is an ideal of what a rockery plant should be 
branches over a warm stone. The blossoms are very large, 
single and of a warm magenta tone. A delightful plant for the 
rock garden or wall top. 
D. integer is one of the prettiest of the smaller Pinks, bearing 
its dainty fringed white blossoms with great freedom. Its 
habit is neat and close and it is essentially a plant for the rock 
garden where it likes a position in full sun and a soil rather poor 
and gritty. 
D. neglectus is one of the gems of the family. It grows in 
tight little hummocks of glaucous foliage from which issue 
slender stems four to six inches high carrying one, sometimes 
two, brilliant pink single blossoms with a bluish tone at the 
centre. These close at night disclosing the fact that the under 
sides of the petals are buff-colored. D. neglectus is very flori- 
ferous and a well grown plant presents a fairly dazzling ap- 
pearance. It requires to be grown in full light and in a soil 
nicely compounded of leafmold, loam and broken stones. 
D. petraeus, a lovely fringed Pink, very fragrant, is a good 
subject for the sunny border edge or the rock garden. The 
flowers are light pink and the bright green shoots spread over the 
soil forming tufts of narrow foliage. 
D. chinensis asper, The European form of the species of- 
ten referred to as D. Seguieri, is an erect little bush from twelve 
to eighteen inches high with flat pointed leaves, bright green in 
color, and warm crimson blossoms spotted purple at the throat 
and with toothed edges. It is one of the very easily grown 
Pinks, and flowers continuously throughout the summer. 
D. subacaulis is a diminutive species from the alps of Dau- 
phiny, growing in small glaucous rosettes that increase to broad, 
close-growing tufts. The small pink flowers are borne on stems 
not more than three inches tall and in great profusion. It is a 
plant for a choice corner of the rock garden in stony soil and 
sunshine. 
D. superbus is a beautiful plant flowering nearly all summer, 
and is one of the few of its family that will tolerate partial 
shade. It grows anywhere from a foot to two feet in height, has 
erect leafy stems like those of a Sweet William and pale lilac- 
pink blossoms fringed almost to raggedness with little green- 
ish spots at the base of the petals. It is suitable either for bor- 
der or rock garden but should be treated as a biennial, raised 
from seed every year, as it is apt to be short lived. 
D. sylvestris should be much better known, for it is one 
of the most brilliant and effective species and not difficult to 
grow. In spite of its descriptive name it requires full sunshine 
and enjoys a well drained gritty soil. In such a position it 
forms close tufts of narrow, slightly bluish leaves, and flowers 
most generously. The blossoms are rather large, toothed, and 
of a most delightful pure pink tone, blue spotted at the base 
of the petals and with conspicuous lilac anthers. It is a charm- 
ing plant for the rock garden or for a crevice in a sunny wall face. 
