. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. MULLEIN PINK 5/em.—Two to three feet high, jointed and forked, covered with white woolly hairs. Leaves.—Opposite, oblong or oblong-spatulate tapering to a more or less clasping base. Flowers.—Rose-crimson or white, borne singly on the ends of the branches. Caiyx.—Cylindrical, five-ribbed, five-toothed; teeth short and slender. Petals.—Five, long-clawed, crimson, velvety, each bearing two small appendages at the base of the border. Stamens.—Not more than ten; anthers co
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. MULLEIN PINK 5/em.—Two to three feet high, jointed and forked, covered with white woolly hairs. Leaves.—Opposite, oblong or oblong-spatulate tapering to a more or less clasping base. Flowers.—Rose-crimson or white, borne singly on the ends of the branches. Caiyx.—Cylindrical, five-ribbed, five-toothed; teeth short and slender. Petals.—Five, long-clawed, crimson, velvety, each bearing two small appendages at the base of the border. Stamens.—Not more than ten; anthers coming up to the opening of the throat. Ovary.—One-celled; styles five, sometimes four. Pod.—Opening at the top, many-seeded. The Mullein Pink in bloom is an effect in gray and crimson. The gray, produced by an immense number of soft, white, woolly hairs clinging to stems and leaf surfaces, has a beautiful greenish undertone, and above the gray foliage, crowning and completing it, are the flowers of vivid crimson, making a glowing mass of color unsurpassed in richness of tint by any occupant of the garden. There are three forms of this plant in cultivation: the single red, the single white, and the double red. Gerard records that they were growing "plentifully in most ; He speaks of the soft leaves as being "fit to make ji 1 ,, J r *ii Mullein Pink. Lychnis candle weekes, and refers to the brightness cormdria of the flowers as suggesting the names by which it appears they were then known, as the "gardner's de- light" or "gardner's ; The plant was known also as the Rose of May arid the Rose of Heaven. These titles seem to us rather extravagant, but the superb color of the flowers warrants a good deal of enthusiasm, and those early gardeners knew noth- ing of our modem wonders. The spread of the flower frequently reaches an inch and a half and in the velvet-crimson of its petals are darker lines leading to 137. Pl
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