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Definition of Garden pink
1. Noun. Any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Dianthus, Genus Dianthus
Specialized synonyms: Dianthus Barbatus, Sweet William, Carnation, Clove Pink, Dianthus Caryophyllus, Gillyflower, China Pink, Dianthus Chinensis, Rainbow Pink, Dianthus Deltoides, Maiden Pink, Cheddar Pink, Diangus Gratianopolitanus, Button Pink, Dianthus Latifolius, Cottage Pink, Dianthus Plumarius, Grass Pink, Dianthus Supurbus, Fringed Pink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garden Pink
Literary usage of Garden pink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"... out of which one could, day after day, gather rich treasures, and yet leave
its beauty apparently undimmed. Everybody garden pink. ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"The varieties of the garden pink and the pheasant-eye pink, which are usually
designated the florists' pink, are of much less antiquity than the carnation ..."
3. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"Pinks have only been known as garden flowers from a very modern date; indeed,
the garden pink is supposed by many to be only a sub-species, or, perhaps, ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"It passes in about three or four generations into a double garden Pink ...
every generation by the pollen of the garden Pink, said to be D. plumarius. ..."
5. The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of by Alexander Watson (1859)
"A cutting of the smaller, or garden Pink, made with the ... The smaller, or garden
Pink, is usually raised from cuttings, as Fig. ..."
6. The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of by Alexander Watson (1859)
"A cutting of the smaller, or garden Pink, made with the knife. g. A pink " piping,"
made by drawing out, without using the knife. ..."
7. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"... out of which one could, day after day, gather rich treasures, and yet leave
its beauty apparently undimmed. Everybody garden pink. ..."
8. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"The varieties of the garden pink and the pheasant-eye pink, which are usually
designated the florists' pink, are of much less antiquity than the carnation ..."
9. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"Pinks have only been known as garden flowers from a very modern date; indeed,
the garden pink is supposed by many to be only a sub-species, or, perhaps, ..."
10. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"It passes in about three or four generations into a double garden Pink ...
every generation by the pollen of the garden Pink, said to be D. plumarius. ..."
11. The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of by Alexander Watson (1859)
"A cutting of the smaller, or garden Pink, made with the ... The smaller, or garden
Pink, is usually raised from cuttings, as Fig. ..."
12. The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of by Alexander Watson (1859)
"A cutting of the smaller, or garden Pink, made with the knife. g. A pink " piping,"
made by drawing out, without using the knife. ..."
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