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Gillyflower
From LoveToKnow 1911
GILLYFLOWER, a popular name applied to various flowers, but principally to the clove, Dianthus Caryophyllus, of which the carnation is a cultivated variety, and to the stock, Matthiola incana, ...
Plant Selector Guide
Matthiola incana (Queen Stock, Gillyflower, Brampton Stock) ...
The rose and gillyflower appear on the station badge of RAF Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, and subsequently on the badge of 39 Engineer Regiment based at Waterbeach Barracks.
2,000 years of cultivation (the name Dianthus was mentioned by Theophrastus c.300 B.C.) the carnation has given rise to about 2,000 varieties, all derived from the single-flowered, flesh-colored clove pink, known in Elizabethan times as gillyflower.
#1130 Matthiola incana
Common Names: stock, gillyflower, Brompton stock
Family: Brassicaceae/Cruciferae (cabbage Family)
Wallpaper Gallery (4 images) ...
"Empty hives, & flitting bees,
& sunny morning hours:
I snipp'd the blossom'd lavender,
& the pinks, & the gillyflowers." -May Probyn
circa 1895 ...
 See also: Clove, Dianthus, Pink, Carnation, Stock
  
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