. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. i^^' THE CLOVE CARNATION, ll'uiinhus iiirijoplujUiK. T is impossible to determine with exactitude which amongst our g'urdeu flowers is the oldest in the history of floriculture. But this is certain, that the carnation is one of the oldest; and as an English flower it is joossibly older than the tulip, which, it must lie C(.infessed, will run a close race with it when the question is con- sidered from a florist's point of view. As ti> tlie origin of the llower, it is bej'ond doubt the offspring of a wilding of the sou
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. i^^' THE CLOVE CARNATION, ll'uiinhus iiirijoplujUiK. T is impossible to determine with exactitude which amongst our g'urdeu flowers is the oldest in the history of floriculture. But this is certain, that the carnation is one of the oldest; and as an English flower it is joossibly older than the tulip, which, it must lie C(.infessed, will run a close race with it when the question is con- sidered from a florist's point of view. As ti> tlie origin of the llower, it is bej'ond doubt the offspring of a wilding of the south of Europe; and it is pro- bahle Plinj' is correct in saying —as in his twenty-fifth book he d<:ics—that it was discovered in Spain in the days of Augustus Ctesar. The " cantabrica,^'' which we take to be the car- nation, was, he saj's, employed by the Spaniards to give a spicy flavonr to their beverages, thus antedating the " soppes in wine" to which our old English writers occa= 3W. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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