sweet Johnn.
A name for the narrower-leaved varieties of a species of pink, Dianthus barbatus, as distinguished from those called sweet-william n.
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gillyflower1517
carnation1538
clove gillyflower1538
incarnation1538
William1538
pink1566
John1572
Indian eye1573
sops-in-wine1573
sweet John1573
sweet-william1573
tuft gillyflower1573
Colmenier1578
small honesty1578
tol-me-neer1578
London tuft1597
maidenly pink1597
mountain pink1597
clove-carnation1605
musk-gillyflower1607
London pride1629
pride of London1629
maiden pink1650
Indian pink1664
Spanish pink1664
pheasant's eye pink1718
flake1727
flame1727
picotee1727
old man's head1731
painted lady1731
piquet1731
China-pink1736
clove1746
wild pink1753
lime-wort1777
matted thrift1792
clove-pink1837
Cheddar Pink1843
Dianthus1849
bunch pink1857
perpetual-flowering carnation1861
cliff pink1863
meadow pink1866
musk carnation1866
Jack1873
wax-pink1891
Malmaison1892
grenadin1904
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 41 Herbes..for windowes & potts... Swete Ihons [1577 Sweete Iohns].
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 478 Sweete Iohns hath round iointed stalkes, as haue the Gilloflowers.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 319 The sweete Iohn hath his leaues broader, shorter and greener then any of the former Gilloflowers, but narrower than sweete Williams.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 5) II. 238 Sweet Williams, or Sweet Johns, are of several sorts, but the double and the Velvet are chiefly worth your propagating.
1911 C. Mackenzie Passionate Elopement xxix. 257 The very heart of high June and hot July dwelt in that fragrant enclosure. Sweet Johns and Sweet Williams with Dragon flowers and crimson Peaseblossom.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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