DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARNATION 



By 1 90 1, Prosperity was given to the trade — a really 

 sensational kind, and absolutely unique; it was in great 

 demand. In 1903 Adonis and Enchantress were dis- 

 tributed. Mr. Fisher found a 

 heavy demand for this ktter 

 famous seedling, and had littJe 

 trouble getting up the enormous 

 quantity required. And Adonis ! 

 — anyone having literary talents 

 might have written a book about 

 this glorious crimson scarlet of 

 Witterstaetter's. Robt. Craig 

 and E. G. Hill completely lost 

 their heads at sight of it: strong, 

 upright stems, carrying velvety 

 flowers of the most intense shade. 

 They each bought a third inter- 

 est in it, and the triangular ^ . t^ ,, t, .1, i,- 



' ^ Born at Dowelly, Perthshire, 



combination set about introduC- Scotland, in ISS?. Raiser of some 



of the most famous and most 



ing the young Adonis to the successful varieties of American 



° JO commercial Carnations. He is 



American trade, who were ready ^tiii busy at work at eihs, Mass. 

 to receive it with open aims. It 



was awarded all sorts of honors, and the press gave it 

 quite extravagant notices. It was not till a second season 

 that its lack of texture became apparent, and to the 

 intense disappointment of lovers of the Carnation, it went 

 down like the fall of a rocket. 



Flora Hill was still the most widely grown white, but 

 everybody wanted a better one, with stiffer stems early 

 in the season. Lady Bountiful was tried with interest, 

 and was short' y superseded, in 1906, by White Perfection, 

 one of the lovehest and most perfectly formed varieties 

 in existence, which was followed, in 1907, by White 



Peter Fisher 



