Carnation

Carnation (Dianthus) refers to a sort of one-, two-and perennial herbaceous plants of the family cloves. Flowers are beautiful nails with a pleasant smell often solitary or aggregated in inflorescences. There are about 300 species. The most common nail garden or Dutch. Flowers they mostly densely-bath, scented, variegated color (red, pink, yellow and white).

At the beginning of XX century in Russia published a book remarkable promoter of natural sciences, especially botany Nikolai Fedorovich Zolotnitsky - "Flowers in the legends and traditions." A very interesting reference in this book about the nail due to the crusade of St. Louis IX in 1270. Then his troops had been besieged city of Tunis. And then, among the Crusaders broke the terrible plague. People died like flies, and all the efforts of doctors to help them proved futile. Then, Saint Louis, firmly convinced of that nature against any of the poison and the antidote exists, and has, as they say, some knowledge of medicinal herbs, has decided that in a country where so often plagues this terrible illness, is likely to be found and cured its plant. And then his attention was attracted by a small but very bright and beautiful flower that grew in the dry and almost barren soil. Its beautiful color and smell, which reminded him spicy Indian clove, forced him to assume that this is exactly what a plant that could help his army to defeat the terrible disease.

He was ordered to gather as many of these flowers, make them drink liquor, and they fall ill. And - oh, surprise! - Infusion is in many cases, healing, and the plague begins, as if a little weak. Sadly, however, it should be noted that this miracle broth did not help his king, Louis IX, and soon became its latest victim.

Back home, adored their good king Crusaders bring with them to the memory of him and his carnations, which from that time in France is one of the favorite colors. However, its healthfulness, they do not attribute the properties of the plant itself, and the sanctity of Louis IX, because, as you know, shortly thereafter, in 1297 Pope classifies Louis IX of the saint. For the same reason, perhaps, the famous botanist Carl Linnaeus gave it many centuries later, the scientific name of Dianthus (diantus) is connected with the two words "Dios" and "antos", which means "divine flower."

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