Show the in an old pliny refers to the carnation as having been used in the days of augustus cassar to give a spicy flavor to wine while greatly loved and admired by the ancients its improvement was not much advanced until it found a home in england the date of this event is not quite clear but is believed to bo about the year 1200 chaucer wrote of its cultivation in from which date it baa been considered a florists flower it was first called carnation by henry lyte in 1578 and designated as a pink in edmund spenser called it coronation which found little favor shakespeare in A winters talc act 4 says the fairest flowers 0 the sea eon aro OTIC carnations iio also alludes to it in henry V |