. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 66 Caryophyllca'—Diaiitluis gardens began to beautiful varieties now cultivated in our arrive from (jerniany and Kussia. Since then they have been considerably increased, and we might now enumerate upwards of a hundred, both double and single, and comprehending every shade and combination of colour from white and pink to dark purple. 4. B. Hispiniicus.
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 66 Caryophyllca'—Diaiitluis gardens began to beautiful varieties now cultivated in our arrive from (jerniany and Kussia. Since then they have been considerably increased, and we might now enumerate upwards of a hundred, both double and single, and comprehending every shade and combination of colour from white and pink to dark purple. 4. B. Hispiniicus. Spanish Pink.—A charming variety of the Sweet William. It has rather broad leaves, erect stems, and dense inflorescence ; but its flowers are at least three times the size of the common varieties. Their normal tint is a lilac carmine, with a circle of dots of a deeper colour around the centre. This colouring is greatly modified under cultivation, and varieties are now known some quite white, others rose or carmine, and others again marbled with pink or carmine upon a white ground. And it is not an unusual occurrence to meet with all these varieties of colouring in the same individual; hence, doubtless, its French name of CEillet badin, or Sportive Pink. Only the semi-double and double varieties are gene- rally seen in gardens, and even they are not very widely spread at the present time, though they have long been in favoiu'. In the French edition this is given as a distinct spe- cies ; but the true D. His- pdnicus is a totally diffe- rent plant, belonging to another section of the genus. 5. D. Chinrnsis (Jig. 4:5). Chinese Pink, or Indian Pink.—Brought from China early in the eighteenth cen- tury by a Frencli missionary named Bignon, it soon bo- came as popular as the other species of this genus. It is distinguished by its narrower more acute glaucous leaves and its incomparably larger flowers, which in some va- rieties are truly enormous. Chincnsis. (J nat. siz
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