Dianthus
Heddewigii
Half Hardy Perennial
1 foot.
Flowers chiefly white and shades of pink and crimson,
July to September.
The Japan Pink is a compact-growing plant with
grey-green foliage, not unlike a stiffer and shorter
Carnation. The flowers are mostly fringed at the
edges; there are single and double strains, in
colour pure white, white with crimson eye, “selfs”
of pink, salmon-colour, carmine and a very fine
black-crimson. Seed, of a good mixed strain for
ordinary bedding purposes, should be sown on a
moderate hot-bed about the middle of March, the
seedlings pricked out and hardened, and planted
out in good garden soil about a foot apart towards
the end of May. The plans require no sticks, and
the only care after planting out is the destruction
of weeds, the keeping a loose surface to the soil
and a good watering in very dry weather, followed
by a top-dressing of leaf-mould or old hot-bed
manure.
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