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Carnation came to France at the end of the XIII century (it had brought the Crusaders from Tunisia), and in the beginning of XIV century, it (also brought from the East) and cultivated in the gardens of the Medici in Italy. In England and France carnation flower was the upper classes, loved her kings, in Belgium, she became a flower of the common people, a symbol of comfortable fireside, in Germany it symbolizes constancy and fidelity. |