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LANGUAGE AND 
PINK, CARNATION. 
Diantlius rubeus . . . Class 10; Order 2 
woman’s love. 
Man’s love lives but with hope ; while woman’s heart 
Still echoes to the music of the past. 
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A love all sacrifice and suffering; a star 
That gathers lustre from the gloom of night j' 
A martyr’s fond idolatry ; a faith 
Baptized in tears, to sorrow consecrate. 
Mrs. AVhitman. 
The Pink is typical of pure love. Florists 
have two principal divisions of these lovely 
flowers—pinks and carnations. The latter is 
much larger and fuller leaved, but not more fra¬ 
grant, than its little sister. The high rank 
which this extensive genus held in the estima¬ 
tion ol the Greeks and Homans may be learned 
from its nomenclature. By the former people 
it was called the “divine flower” ( diantlius ), the 
name it still retains; to the latter race it was 
known as Flos Jovis, or “Jove’s Flower;” that 
title, according to some, being bestowed on it 
for its remarkable beauty : but awarded to it, 
others say, for its super-eminent fragrance. 
The bearded pink is better known as the Sweet 
William, under which well-known designation 
