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SIR,—With reference to the possible origins of the name Sweet

William, Miss E. S. Rohde, in her learned and delightful volume The Scented SIR,—With reference to the possible origins of the name Sweet William, Miss E. S. Rohde, in her learned and delightful volume The Scented _Garden, writes, "Sweet Williams were called Caryophyllus Carthusianorunt, or Lychnis Monachortun in the sixteenth century, and they are supposed to have been introduced into this country by the Carthusian Monks in the twelfth century. According to another tradition they took their name from William the Conqueror. The varieties of Sweet William with narrow leaves were formerly called Sweet-Johns and as such arc described in the Paradisus" (i.e. John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole

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