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THE PERPETUAL CARNATION. 



II IS very interesting tu get tin' KiiK- 

 lisli point of view on the carnation as 

 a popular flower. The Carnation Year 

 Book published by the British Carna- 

 tion Society has just come to liaiid 

 anti contains the following from the 

 pen of Lawrence J. Cook: 



"Know thyself. 

 And to thine own self be true — 

 Thou canst not then be false to any 

 man." 



.\nd when we know ourselves let us 

 try and know the plant in which we 

 are so interested. 



The Conference on Carnations, held 

 on March 10, 1920, suggested that many 

 of us have much to learn about the 

 Perpetual Carnation. When we know 

 it, the pleasure of growing it will be 

 greatly increased. 



Just as the perfect man is a com- 

 bination of brute beast animal, and 

 spirit, and his perfection depends on 

 the ratio in which the latter pre- 

 dominates over the former, so in a like 

 way the perfect Perpetual Carnation is 

 a combination of qualities the principal 

 of which are beauty of form, color, and 

 perfume, always combined with a per- 

 petual growing and free flowering 

 habit. 



Raisers of the old border carnation 

 have been the means of creating a 

 flower of beautiful form and color, but 

 often without perfume, no longer al- 

 ways hardy, and flowering at one short 

 period of the year. They have pro- 

 duced a "Whited Sepulchre." 



American raisers have studied size 

 of flower, and to their own crude idea, 

 color, but chiefly habit of i)lant has 

 been their aim and success. They are 

 fast losing the delicious old clove per- 

 fume which one would expect from the 

 decendants of the Gilliflower. 



The British raisers have a big task 

 in gathering up the threads that have 

 been dropped, that of habit of plant by 

 the early British raisers, and combin- 

 ing them with the color and perfume 

 nearly lost to us by American raisers. 

 Is it an impossibility? 



The British Carnation Society has 

 evolved its name from the Winter 

 Flowering Carnation Society and Per- 

 petual Flowering Carnation Society, 

 because its memt)ers consider that we 

 have reached a point in its history 

 when all forms of carnations might be 

 embraced. The writer was the only 

 meml)er of the Society's Executive who 

 opposed the last change of name, be- 

 cause he believes that it is dangerous 

 to compromise. 



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PETER H. LANE, M. D. 

 We regret to announce the sudden 

 passing away July 7th of Dr. Lane who 

 was widely Icnown in horticultural cir- 

 cles as well as in the medical profes- 

 sion. He attended nearly all the S. 

 A. F. conventions during the past fit- 

 teen years; was an ardent enthusiast 

 in the Pennsylvania Horticultural so- 

 ciety; the Florists Club of Philadel- 

 phia; made trips to Barnegat, the West 

 Indies, and other places with congenial 

 spirits like Craig. Westcott. Asmus. 

 and other old timers. He was a most 

 genial, conipanionahle gentleman, high- 

 ly trained in botanical knowledge and 

 a man whom everybody was proud to 

 know. In his own profession he was a 

 specialist in nervous and mental dis- 

 eases, and was proprietor and manager 

 of the Kenwood Sanitarium at Chest- 

 nut Hill, Philadelphia, which he 

 founded about 16 years ago. He was 45 

 years of age, and in his boyhood days 



he ran around Nahant and played 

 pranks on Tom Roland the noted flow- 

 er grower there who knew and loved 

 him when but knee high. Later he was 

 a Dartmouth student from which he 

 graduated. He also took the medical 

 course at Harvard: and at the Medico- 

 Chi in Philadelphia. The cause of his 

 death was pneumonia. Interment took 

 place at Lexington. Kentucky in the 

 family burying ground of his wife, who 

 survives him and was co-manager of 

 the Sanitarium with lier husband — she 

 also l>eing highly trained in the pro-, 

 fession. The doctor was a keen sports- 

 man and took many trips to the back- 

 woods. He was known to his cronies 

 in the familiar moments when dignity 

 and business was laid aside by the lov- 

 ing title of "Moosehead Pete" and he 

 did not resent these pleasantries but 

 always gave in return as good as he 

 got. We will all miss him. 



G. C. Watsox. 



