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June 22, 1907 



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AMERICAN CARNATIONS IN DEN- 

 MARK. 



P,iper Read Before the American Carna- 

 tion Society at Toronto. 

 BY P. RUSE. 



Carnations are not grown on a very 

 large scale here yet but they are ship- 

 ped in from Italy and Southern Fl-ance 

 from November till May and it is very 

 bard for the home growers to compete 

 with the imported goods. We can- 

 not get as nic3 carnations in mid- 

 winter as you can in America, as the 

 days are very short and we get a very 

 little sunshine. I have been growing 

 carnations here since 1899 and have 

 been growing nothing but the Ameri- 

 can sorts. The first winter I had a 

 good deal of trouble with the plants, 

 a good many rotting on account of the 

 damp and cloudy weather. 



The first sorts I started with were 

 Daybreak, Flora Hill, C. A. Dana, Wm. 

 Scott, Triumph, Evelina and Gold 

 Nugget but have now discarded them 

 all with the exception of Triumph and 

 Daybreak. Flora Hill did not give 

 blooms enough and besides, white is 

 not as much called for as colors. C. 

 A. Dana was too small. Scott came 

 too late with its second crop — it would 

 not come till the last part of May. 

 Evelina rotted all the first fall in a 

 short time. • Gold Nugget did not give 

 flowers enough and the most of them 

 came imperfect. Daybreak rotted all 

 with the exception of two or three 

 plants and I thought of discarding it, 

 but by careful handling, I have since 

 had very good success with it, and it 

 has up till this day been one of my 

 best paying varieties. It is a little 

 inclined to be weak in the stem in the 

 winter time. My best paying variety 

 has been Triumph. It blooms early in 

 the fall — some all through the winter. 

 It seldom splits and it gives a good 

 heavy crop early in the spring, but it 

 sometimes is pretty badly affected with 

 stem rot. I have since tried Ethel 

 Crocker, Gov, Roosevelt and Mrs 

 Lawson. Crocker splits badly in the 

 fall and all through winter and don't 

 give a good crop before the middle 

 of summer, too late to pay. Roosevelt 

 gives a good flower, a good stem, but 

 hardly blooms enough in fall and win- 

 ter to pay and it also comes too late 

 in the spring with the best crop to be 

 of much account. Lawson splits 

 badly and has rather short stem in 

 the fall, but in early spring it gives 



a heavy crop of nice flowers and a 

 good long stem just in the right time 

 to bring a good price. 



In the spring of 1905, I bought some 

 of the newer American varieties. I 

 got them from England, but they are 

 quite expensive there. They charge 

 from 1 to 2 shillings apiece. Others 

 have tried to import them from 

 America, but not with very good suc- 

 cess. In the most cases they were 

 dead when they arrived. The varieties 

 I am trying are Flamingo, Harlowar- 

 den, Harry Fenn, The President, 

 America, Enchantress, Prosperity, 

 Floriana, Indianapolis, Nelson Fisher 

 and White Lawson, I have not formed 

 any decided opinion of them yet as I 

 only got a dozen of each, and have 

 used them for propagating only last 

 winter, but my idea of the; different 

 varieties so far this fall has been that 

 Enchantress is a fine flower, good 

 color and stem, but will not give so 

 many flowers as Daybreak and was a 

 good deal affected with stem rot in 

 the field. Prosperity I don't think 

 will pay, as variegated colors don't 

 sell so well and it has not bloomed 

 very much so far. Estelle looks as it 

 it would be one of the best. It starts 

 to bloom early and very freely, good 

 sized flower, stiff stem, and doesn't 

 split. Flamingo is a fine flower but 

 too late. America is too pale in the 

 winter. In the dark varieties Harry 

 Fenn is to date the best. Harlowar- 

 den is rather too dark in winter. The 

 President made a very poor growth in 

 the field. White Lawson don't pay. 

 Floriana is one of the colors the most 

 called for, but has bloomed very little 

 so far. Indianapolis may take the 

 place of Triumph. Nelson Fisher, one 

 of the best. Fine color, free blooming, 

 good stem, don't split, has made a good 

 growth in the field and bench and not 

 troubled with any kind of disease so 

 far, but very hard to propagate in win- 

 ter but roots quite freely in August. 



We plant in the field about the first 

 of May and lift again the first part of 

 August, but we hardly get as strong 

 growth as you do in the United States. 

 Heretofore I have been propagating 

 my plants in the fall and early winter, 

 but this year, I have propagated most 

 of my plants early in August and I 

 now have very strong plants, and 

 then keep them quite cool, through the 

 winter just about freezing. In that 

 way I take the cuttings from the old 

 plants just before throwing them out. 

 They give very good cuttings at that 

 time, as we are not troubled much 

 with red spider and the summer is not 



BO hot as that they will make a good 

 growth all through the summer and In 

 this way we save the plants a good 

 deal in the fall. In some places here 

 they keep the young plants in a cold 

 frame all winter, only protecting with 

 glass and shutters and the ground will 

 at times be frozen hard, but it is mostly 

 the European varieties they keep in 

 that way, but I think it a little risky 

 as I saw in one place where they all 

 died in a short time from drip and rot. 

 When I first started I kept my carna- 

 tions on a night temperature of about 

 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The stems 

 would then be rather weak, but never- 

 theless they sold well all through the 

 winter at five cents apiece, but in the 

 last few years, the importations from 

 the South have increased to such an 

 extent that good carnations are sold 

 here in midwinter at 25 to 30 cents a 

 dozen; in fact, better flowers than we 

 can produce here in the short days. I 

 now keep them on about 38 to 40 

 degrees Fahrenheit through December, 

 January and February. In that way 

 we get a very few flowers in midwin- 

 ter, but the plants will be better and 

 stronger in the spring and will give a 

 good crop in April, May and June, the 

 time when there is the biggest demand 

 for them. On the whole, we have to 

 look for such varieties as will give a 

 good crop in October and November 

 and again in the spring, and we will 

 get a better price than in mid- 

 winter. They are at present working 

 on a revision of the tariff and if we 

 should get a duty on cut flowers, it 

 would be a great help to the florist 

 and there would be grown a great 

 many more carnations round this city. 



NEWPORT PERSONALS. 



The summer people are coming m 

 fast now that the heat in the cities is 

 beginning to be felt. 



Ralph Armstrong is here for the 

 summer in charge of the Wadley & 

 Sniythe store on Bellevue Ave. 



F. L. Zeigler has opened a store ou 

 Bellevue avenue. Mr. Zeigler will also 

 continue to do business at bis old 

 stand on Broadway. 



Bruce Butterton, president of the 

 Newport Horticultural Society is seri- 

 ously ill at his residence on Parker 

 Ave. Last reports however indicated 

 an improvement in his condition. 

 Much sympathy is manifested for Mr. 

 Butterton by his numerous friends 

 here. 



