. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. HONESTY. Lirnctrhi hinnns. HIS old-fasluunrd flower eomes to us with tjuite a new iiame^ that lias, like the flowei-j a veiy old- fasliioned appearance. It is not known as " Honesty " in tlie old herbals^ hut as the satin violet^ which is l)y no means a. 1)ad name for it. In Ijyte's " Dodoens" (1573) common single pinks arc called " small honesties ; " but we have not found any merely nominal "Honesty" in honest John Geranle or John Parkinson. Tlic\' tell us of Viola Iniutria, the Boh
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. HONESTY. Lirnctrhi hinnns. HIS old-fasluunrd flower eomes to us with tjuite a new iiame^ that lias, like the flowei-j a veiy old- fasliioned appearance. It is not known as " Honesty " in tlie old herbals^ hut as the satin violet^ which is l)y no means a. 1)ad name for it. In Ijyte's " Dodoens" (1573) common single pinks arc called " small honesties ; " but we have not found any merely nominal "Honesty" in honest John Geranle or John Parkinson. Tlic\' tell us of Viola Iniutria, the Bohl)onac or satin flower; and John Gerarde figures it well, while the other John figures it very jioorly. Gerarde saith " the stalks are loden with many flowers like the stocke gilliflower, of a purple colour^ which, being- fallen, the seede conmietli foorth contcined in a flat thinnc cod, with a sharp jioint or prieke at one end, in fasliion of the moouc, and somewhat blackish. This cod is com- posed of three filmes or srans, whereof the two out- most are of an ouerwornc aslie colour, and the inner-. 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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