. 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. Caiyophytlea:—Dianthus. 65 D. fruticosus is usually considered as a variety of the fore- going species. The Tree Carnations and most of the perpetual varieties come under this sub-species. The stems are half- woody at the base, and rise to a height of 3 to 6 feet when supported. The varieties are now becoming numerous, but they are more valuable for win
. 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. Caiyophytlea:—Dianthus. 65 D. fruticosus is usually considered as a variety of the fore- going species. The Tree Carnations and most of the perpetual varieties come under this sub-species. The stems are half- woody at the base, and rise to a height of 3 to 6 feet when supported. The varieties are now becoming numerous, but they are more valuable for winter flowering under glass than for the flower garden. It is said to be of Eastern- origin and a wild form. In the French edition this is held to be distinct from D. Garyophyllus. 2. D. plumarius. Pink.—A much dwarfer plant than the foregoing, forming dense grass-like tufts of a glaucous tint, and therefore well adapted for edging. Its flowering season commences about the middle or end of May, and is of about a month's duration. There are many varieties of it, mostly very fragrant, both double and single, white, rose, bright carmine, and some are laced or bordered with carmine or lake on a rose or white ground. For pot culture preference is usually given to the white varieties or those bordered with purple on a white ground. It is a native of the South of Eui'ope. 3. D. barbatus (fig. 44). Sweet William.—This is in- digenous in the central and western Pyrenees and other parts of Europe. It is readily distinguished from the preced- ing species by its broader ob- long-lanceolate leaves alone, and also by the relative small- ness of its flowers, which by way of compensation are borne in dense corymbs. The date of its introduction to our gar- dens is so remote that it is difficult to find its origin in the old authors; but one thing is certain, that it is only within the last fifty years that the F. Fig. 44. Dianthus barbatus, (J nat. size.). Please note that these images are
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