Contents 



1'A(;e 



CHAPTER VI. 



Proi'agating and Shii'I'ing Young Stock . . . 71-86 



Like Produces Like ••.... 71 



Propagating House— Construction of Propagating Bench •]•] 



Propagating Mediums ..... 79 



Putting the Cuttings in the Sand P.cnch ... 81 



Packing Cuttings for Shipment . . . . 84 



Propagation l)y Layering .... 8" 



CHAPTER VH. 

 Treat.ment of Young Carnation Stock Preparatory to 



Planting Out ....... 87-03 



Shifting ........ 89 



Pincliing Back or Stopping ..... 90 



CHAPTER \11I. 



Field Culture of Carnations ..... 94-101 



Cultivation after Planting . . ... 07 



Stopping Carnations in tlie Field .... ^.g 



102-110 

 102 

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111-117 

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CHAPTER LX. 

 Lifting and Planting Carnations fro.m the Field 



Filling the Benches ...... 



Marking Out the Bench— Digging the Plants from the Field 

 Watering ....... 108 



Shading the Carnation Houses before Planting . . 109 



CHAPTER X. 

 Treatment After Benching and L'ntil the Plants are in 

 Bloom ...... 



Staking or Wiring ..... 



Cultivation of Soils on Benches . . . . 114 



Disbudding . . . . jjg 



CHAPTER XL 



Picking, Packing and Shipping Carn.\tion Flowers . . 118-126 



The Bunch Method and the Box ]\Iethod ... 122 



CHAPTER XH. 

 Insects and Preventives ..... 127-133 



Green Fly ........ 127 



Red Spider ....... 128 



Use of Salt as a Preventive of Red Spider . . . 130 



Thrips ........ 131 



Cut Worms ....... 132 



Carnation Stalk Borer ..... 133 



