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reafonably hope, that it will in time take 
place in the Pink, and that we fhall be 
able to obtain tall ftrong Item’d Pinks, 
with large handfome bloffoms, confiding 
of petals as perfectly entire on the 
edge as thofe of the Carnation or the 
Rofe. 
The word Pink is derived from the 
Dutch, in which language it lignifies 
an Eye. 
The Polyanthus is of the fame clafs 
and order as the Auricula, and has been 
confidered, by different authors, to have 
originated from different fpecies of the 
Primula; fome fuppofe the Cowflip, 
others the Ox flip; but the author of the 
Flora Londinenfis, treating of the Prim- 
rofe, confiders it as the original parent 
of the Polyanthus, to whom we refer 
the reader for his reafons, which he gives 
at large in that excellent publication. 
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