CHAPTER XXVIII. CARNATION AND PINK-DEPTFORD PINK-MOUNTAIN PINK -CLOVE JULY-FLOWER-VARIETIES OF CARNATION ROSE CAMPION-LYCHNIS-CHICKWEED-SOAPWORT SPURREY. "The curious choice clove July-flower." "I would rather see thyme and roses, marjoram and July-flowers, that are fair and sweet and medicinal, than the prettiest tulips that are good for nothing" Jeremy Taylor. DIANTHUS, the "Flower of God," or the Divine flower, is the Latin name of this family of plants, and was given to the carnation and pink, to shew the estimation in which these beautiful and fragrant flowers were held. The carnations were formerly called also coronations, and clove July-flowers, or gilliflowers; and a curious old name for the pink was that of soppes in wine, because its spicy petals were used to flavour CHAPTER XXVIII. CARNATION AND PINK-DEPTFORD PINK-MOUNTAIN PINK -CLOVE JULY-FLOWER-VARIETIES OF CARNATION ROSE CAMPION-LYCHNIS-CHICKWEED-SOAPWORT SPURREY. "The curious choice clove July-flower." "I would rather see thyme and roses, marjoram and July-flowers, that are fair and sweet and medicinal, than the prettiest tulips that are good for nothing Jeremy Taylor. DIANTHUS, the "Flower of God," or the Divine flower, is the Latin name of this family of plants, and was given to the carnation and pink, to shew the estimation in which these beautiful and fragrant flowers were held. The carnations were formerly called also coronations, and clove July-flowers, or gilliflowers; and a curious old name for the pink was that of soppes in wine, because its spicy petals were used to flavour |