DIANTHUS CARYOPHYL'LUS. 
PRINCE OF ORANGE PICOTEE. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. DYGYNIA . 
Natural Order. 
CARYOPHYLLEAS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
England. 
8 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
walls. 
No. 287. 
The word Dianthus, from the Greek, Dios, sig- 
nifying’ Jove, or divine; and a nth os, a flower, 
marks the estimation in which the flowers of this ge- 
nus have been held. Caryophyllus, the name of the 
clove, was adopted on account of the scent of the 
Carnation. See No. 137. Picotee is a French term, 
signifying spotted. 
A compost, or mixture of soils, is important in the 
cultivation of all florists’ flowers, but that of the Car- 
nation and Picotee less so than most others. The 
basis of the most desirable compost, depends on a 
good loam. This is obtained by taking about three 
inches in thickness off the top of a clear rich, reddish 
or rather sandy turf, which has long been grazed. 
This should be laid together in a heap, from one to 
two years, being occasionally turned, and the de- 
cayed grass and roots well mixed. 
This loam, will only require the addition of about 
one half, or two-thirds the like quantity of well-de- 
cayed and sifted stable manure ; and of drift sand, a 
fifth or sixth portion of the whole mixture, to con- 
stitute a compost equal to all purposes of the most 
anxious carnation grower. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 79. 
