.January 21, 1905. 
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Views and Reviews* 
Pinks and Carnations.* 
The most recent handbook on the Carna¬ 
tion and its allies only runs to 91 pp., exclu¬ 
sive of the index, and the author is afraid 
that lie will be accused of omissions, and is 
cognisant that the book omits many things 
which some gardeners would be looking for. 
We think, however, that he has managed 
to get in a greater variety of information con¬ 
cerning the Carnation and its relatives than 
most modern books of similar pretensions can 
make an aspiration to do. As to its worth, 
the title of the book is the most deficient, if 
one expected the information to be entirely 
about Carnations. The author makes 
amends for this by going very deeply into the 
history and description, not only of the Car¬ 
nation, but of the garden Pink and various 
other species. 
In his article on the species of Dianthus 
lie says that, apart from the Carnation, Pink, 
Sweet William, Indian Pink, and a few hy¬ 
brids, the species worth cultivating- are not 
very numerous, but these he enumerates ; 
and although it may be admitted that the 
genus contains more than 200 described 
species, nevertheless, those he selects as 
worthy of cultivation include a very lengthy 
list for garden purposes. Although few of 
them would be appropriate in the herbaceous 
border, they are not only permissible in the 
rock garden, but are peculiarly fitted for 
that kind of work. They naturally grow 
upon rocks, walls, and similar situations, 
with some exceptions, so that by nature they 
are peculiarly adapted for planting on more 
or less elevated positions on the rockery, 
where their roots will be kept relatively 
dry in winter and the plants safer than they 
would be in the open border. 
Half the ailments of Carnations, in our 
opinion, are due to the moist conditions 
under which they are placed in the autumn, 
winter and spring. The excess of moisture 
keeps the roots in a damp condition, for 
which they are ill adapted, while in the case 
of those that are kept under glass in winter 
the atmospheric moisture is mostly always 
responsible for the enemies of a fungoid 
nature at least. 
* “ The Book of the Carnation.” By R. P. Brotherston. 
Together with a chapter on raising new Carnations, by 
Martin R. Smith. London and New York : John Lane, 
The Bodiey Head. 1901. Price 2s. td., net. 
Although both the Carnation and the 
garden Pink have become naturalised upon 
old castles and walls in this country, they 
are not aboriginal natives of Britain. That 
cannot, however, be said of the Cheddar 
Pink, the only representative of the Alpine 
species in this country, and which grows on 
the limestone rocks at Cheddar in Somerset. 
That being so, we are surprised that more 
serious attempts to improve this beautiful 
rock plant have not been made in this 
country. An illustration of it is given 
facing p. 4, but the variety is by no means 
the best form of the species. We know that 
seeds are occasionally imported from the 
Continent and raised in this country for the 
purpose of getting up a stock of it. Many 
of the seedlings, however, give rise to very 
poor flowers, even more diminutive than 
that here represented by the photograph. 
Good types of it, however, are to be found 
in gardens which are characterised by broad 
petals that meet or nearly so, while in other 
respects the plant does not- differ from that 
of a good botanical description. We may 
here observe that other wild Pinks are just 
as liable to vary from seed as D. caesius, in¬ 
cluding D. monspessulanus, of which we gave 
an illustration during the past summer (Vol. 
XXI., p. 635), showing two quite distinct- 
forms in the same pot. 
A very good illustration is given of D. del- 
toides pulchellus, but surely it must repre¬ 
sent a garden variety, judging from the 
breadth of the petals. When seen in good 
form, however, in a grassy pasture, the 
flowers of this, the Maiden Pink, are very 
handsome indeed. The variety to which 
we refer in this work most closely resembles 
D. deltoides glaucus, originally found on 
Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh, the flowers in 
both cases being white with five purple spots, 
showing a peculiar form of albinism, which 
is very frequent even amongst the common 
garden Pinks. 
The last named is here called the Feathery 
Pink or Pheasant’s Eye, and is the reputed 
parent of all the forms of the garden Pink, 
including the laced ones. The earliest 
botanical record of its introduction, accord¬ 
ing to the author, was in 1629, but he thinks 
it must have been in cultivation previous 
to that, as Gerard knew it well. In Ray’s 
time it. was a very common wild plant in 
this country, though apparently found on 
walls and similar places, where it had been 
a mere escape from cultivation. At the pre¬ 
sent time it is very scarce outside the pro¬ 
tection of gardens. Amongst the list most, 
if not all, of the really pretty ones worth 
