Plate 28. 
HEDDEWIG’S PINK. 
Dianthus chinensis , var, Heddewigii. 
This new Japanese Pink, a gigantic form of the Chinese or 
Indian Pink long cultivated in our gardens, is one of the finest 
of recent introductions among hardy plants. It is a native of 
Japan, and has been introduced to European gardens through 
the agency of Mr. Heddewig, a nurseryman of St. Petersburg, 
after whom it has been named, the plant having been exhibited 
by him at one of the flower-shows held in 1858, in the Rus¬ 
sian capital, on which occasion it was rewarded by a medal. 
The plant was first publicly shown in this country in 1859, by 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of St. John’s Wood; and an 
exhibition from these gentlemen was commended by the Floral 
Committee of the Horticultural Society, and awarded a medal 
at the summer show of the Royal Botanic Society. 
This Dianthus Heddewigii forms a low-tufted herb, its shoots 
being furnished with grassy pink-like leaves, rather broader than 
usual. The flower-stems grow a foot or more in height, branch¬ 
ing below, and bearing numerous flowers which are of a large 
and remarkably showy character. In some of the varieties, es¬ 
pecially those producing dark-coloured flowers, the stems are 
stained with purple, while in others they are green, all being 
more or less glaucous. The leaves are broadish, linear, acute, 
rather short, recurved, roughish at the margins. The flowers 
are terminal, usually produced singly at the ends of the side 
Plate 28. —Diaxthes chixexsis, var. Heddewigii : stems much branched 
at the base, dwarfish, and as well as the broad recurved leaves of a glaucous 
green; flowers large, three inches in diameter; petals broad, obovate, ineiso- 
dentate, cuneate and entire at the base. 
D. sixexsis, var. Heddewigii, et gigaxteus, Hegel , Gartenflora , 1858. 
