. 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. Petals only dentate {ex- cept in some garden forms). 8. Caiyoph^lluB, Linn. Car- nation. Clove Pink. Pico- tee. Grenadine. Figs. 366-8, 370-5. Plate IV. Cespitose, glabrous, 1-3 ft., the stems hard or almost woody below, the nodes or joints conspicu- ous : Ivs. long-linear, very glaucous: fls. on long stems, pa
. 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. Petals only dentate {ex- cept in some garden forms). 8. Caiyoph^lluB, Linn. Car- nation. Clove Pink. Pico- tee. Grenadine. Figs. 366-8, 370-5. Plate IV. Cespitose, glabrous, 1-3 ft., the stems hard or almost woody below, the nodes or joints conspicu- ous : Ivs. long-linear, very glaucous: fls. on long stems, particularly inAmerican cult.; calyx - bracts very broad, abruptly pointed : Vars. soli- tary, large, very variable in size, form and color, but origi- nally palo lilac, fragrant. 39 (Bizarre Carnation); 1622 (var. unbricatus); 2744 (Picotees). — Generally sup- posed to be native to the Mediterranean region, but Williams gives its geograph- ical limits as "north and west Normandy" and "south and east Punjab" (northwestern Hindoostan). Long cultivated. In Europe it is largely grown as an outdoor Pink, but in this country it is chiefly known as the greenhouse Carnation. The American forcing type is. 701. Dianthus superbus, (XK.) 702. Dianthus Chinensis(XJ^). 9. sylvfistris, Wulf (D. virgineus, Hort.). Slender, 1 ft. high, the stem angular compressed and bearing 1-3 odorless fls.: Its. tufted, linear and sharp-pointed, scabrous on the margins : fls. rather small, red, the petals obovate and shallow-toothed. Eu. 1740.— Pretty perennial border plant. BB. Calyx-bracts half the length of the calyx, mostly narrow-pointed: Ivs. short and spreading, the radical ones obtuse or nearly so. 10. deltoldes, Linn. Maiden Pink. Tufted, 6-10 in., blooming in spring and early summer, creeping: stems ascending, forking, with solitary fls. on the branchlets: stem Ivs. an inch long, sharp-pointed : fls. small (J4-J4 in. across), the petals toothed, deep red with a crim
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