. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE SWEET WILLIAM. Dianthus barbatus. ARROW-LEAVED varieties of this useful flower are called in the old books " Sweet Johns," and the broad-leaved " Sweet ; We speak of the carnations and pinks as the true gilly-nowers, and have ample authority for so doing. But at the present time the gilly-flower of the midland counties is the wallflower, and in old times the wallflower was called the sweet william. These confusions of popular names serve as a perpetual justifica- tion for the use of the Lati
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE SWEET WILLIAM. Dianthus barbatus. ARROW-LEAVED varieties of this useful flower are called in the old books " Sweet Johns," and the broad-leaved " Sweet ; We speak of the carnations and pinks as the true gilly-nowers, and have ample authority for so doing. But at the present time the gilly-flower of the midland counties is the wallflower, and in old times the wallflower was called the sweet william. These confusions of popular names serve as a perpetual justifica- tion for the use of the Latin names of plants whenever it is intended to specify particular things, and leave no margin for the exercise of fancy or the changeable vagaries of custom. The plant before us is Dianthus barbatus, the bearded pink, and the name. applies to this and no other. The French know it as. 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
Size: 1059px × 2359px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., book, bookdecade1870, booksubjectfloriculture, booksubjectflowers
