. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DIANTHUS DIANTHUS 477 by very narrow or even awl-like Ivs. Denmark to Portu- gal and Egypt. 1775, variable. Little known in Amer. gardens. 3. capit&tus, Balb. Much like the last: plant glaucous, conspicuously pubescent, taller: petals purple-spotted. Siberia, Servia. 4. crufintus, Griseb. Ce
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DIANTHUS DIANTHUS 477 by very narrow or even awl-like Ivs. Denmark to Portu- gal and Egypt. 1775, variable. Little known in Amer. gardens. 3. capit&tus, Balb. Much like the last: plant glaucous, conspicuously pubescent, taller: petals purple-spotted. Siberia, Servia. 4. crufintus, Griseb. Cespitose, glaucous, glabrous : stem 1-2 ft., terete, forking: Ivs. linear or lance-linear, sharp acuminate: fls. deep blood-red, small, numerous in a contracted cyme ; petals red-hairy towards the base. July. Greece. 5. barb§,tus, Linn. Sweet William. Pig. 700. Per- ennial, but readily grown from seed, and flowering well the second year, glabrous, the stems 4-angIed, 10-18 in. high: Ivs. broad and flat or conduplicate, 5-nerved: fls. several to many in a round-topped, dense cyme, in many colors, the petals not hairy. Russia to China and S. to the Pyrenees. 207.—The Sweet William is one of the oldest garden flowers. It is sure to be found in the old-fashioned gardens. The cult, forms run into many colors. Sometimes found along roadsides as an escape. There are double-fld. forms. , 1894, p. 277. AA. Flowers solitary, or in 2's or S^s. B, Calyx-bracts sJiort and broad, appressed. c. Petals fimbriate. 6. plum^rius, Linn. Common Grass or Garden Pink. Scotch Pink. Pheasant's Eye Pink. Low, tufty, 1 ft., blooming in spring and early summer, very fragrant: Its. narrow and short, blue-glaucous : fls. medium size, pink, purplish and white, the blade of the petal fringed one-fourth or one- fifth its depth; calyx cylin- drical, with short, broad- topped mucronate bracts. Austria, Siberia. —A uni- versal favorite. Hardy. Much used in old-fash- ioned gardens as edging for beds. T
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