Requiring even less heat than the carnation is the old-time and all-time favorite, the violet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse] Reference

Normally, the carnation is a hardy perennial, but the garden kinds, or marguerites, are usually treated as annuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

All red flowers, such as carnation and hibiscus are Arian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perfume Review: Neil Morris Dark Earth] Reference

The word "carnation" is an abstraction for a genus of botanical objects in the real world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not PC] Reference

But no one thinks that the printed word "carnation" is the flower carnation; or the printed word "love" is the experience called love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not PC] Reference

The fine healthy carnation of Lady Thomson's cheek paled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

M. Charnot was stooping, examining a superb pink carnation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Her carnation lips, long before they parted, betrayed a smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

"See my carnation!" shouted Pierre, struggling nearer to Hetty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hetty's Strange History] Reference

It was not that the cheek -- whose carnation tint had once drawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

While he was speaking, the lost carnation came back to her cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

In the coloring a carnation hue is remarkable, like that in Michel Angelo's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

The sheen, which from Selene flows, pervades the windows of carnation gauze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

He looked at the deep-red carnation which she held out to him and shook his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

Then off she ran after her father, who had only changed one carnation for another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Anarchist badge, a red tie, a blood red carnation flamed defiance in his buttonhole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hippodrome] Reference

It is quite common to see men with a rose in the button hole, or a beautiful carnation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

Stick rather a short stemmed carnation, daisy or similar flower in the center and serve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games For All Occasions] Reference

Her complexion was beautifully fair, with the slightest tint of carnation suffused over the cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

This oil is extensively used in the cheaper toilet soaps and is an important constituent of carnation soaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference

And Essie, nodding her little tow head, laid a rose-leaf cheek against the crumpled carnation of the newcomer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Take care of the new carnation and pink pipings or layers, and let them be transplanted as soon as convenient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference

My lips were of such a beautiful carnation that, without vanity, I can assure you, very few women had the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Then, catching Pierre by the shoulder so suddenly that his red carnation tottered and nearly fell, she exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hetty's Strange History] Reference

The evening carnation tinged the clouds about the setting sun as they sailed homeward, gathering lilies on their way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

Peter was not to be hurried; he was tying up a carnation plant, and he continued his job with only a nod at the girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference

With white it produces carnation tints nearly approaching to nature, and much employed by Titian, Vandyke, and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

The lips too are figured out; but where's the carnation dew, the pouting ripeness that tempts the taste in the original?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference

An example of its use as a flower filling is shown in the carnation at fig. 64, which is carried out in four shades of colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

= -- An instance of this extraordinary transformation in the carnation, as observed by the Rev.Mr. Berkeley, is given at p. 268.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

There were carnation pinks in the king's greenhouses, and roses with golden hearts, and lovely lilies; but there was no rosemary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story-teller] Reference

A heavily-blossomed rose-tree begged that some of its buds might be clipped, and a favourite carnation put in its claim for a stake.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian Lassie] Reference

Marked by a peculiar softness, and an unusual clearness in its pale washes, rose madder affords the most perfect carnation tints known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

I admired the white water-lily most, though the pomegranate flower, the carnation, and the rose are imitated with the greatest exactness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

(Got up as he was now,) his face displayed a still whiter appearance, as if painted, and his eyes as if they were set off with carnation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference