LLUSTRATIONS 



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Buds and flowers, types of 131 



Bull-headed flower dissected . . 236 

 Carnation, dissection of a 

 double flower 22 



Carnations: 



Cuttings in benches 76 



In the field 80 



Present day commercial 



type of double 13 



Single 12 



Stem and leaves of double 



and single 15 



Three hundred years ago. 19, 21 



Cuttings: 



Carefully packed 61 



Types of 72, 73 



Dailledouze, John 24 



Dianthuses, dwarf hardy, a 



rock garden home for 181 



Dorner, Frederick 35 



Exhibits of Carnations: 



Groups 205, 211 



Bouquet 212 



Basket 207 



English Show or Border .... 209 



Fisher, Peter 41 



Field of Carnations in bloom . . 97 

 Flower, section of double, 195; 



single 196 



Greenhouse: 



Cast-iron base for, 216; 

 columns strongly bolted 

 and clamped, 216; capped 

 iron sill, 220; " Z " bar 



eaves plate 220 



For Carnations, interior 



view, 107; in Sussex, Engl. 165 

 Large modern, 60 ft. by 600 

 ft 218 



Greenhouses: 



\\'ith benches newly phmted. 93 

 Of a large firm at Cleve- 

 land, O 146 



Hi!I, E. Gurney 39 



Layering Carnations 177 



Leaves damaged by aphides 



and thrips 233 



^LaImaison Carnations in 



June 173 



Marguerite Carnations 180 



Packing flowers for shipment. . 64 

 Perpetual-flowering Malmai- 



son Carnation 162 



Pink, double border, Her 



Majesty 182 



Pot-grown Carnation 115 



Propagating house 76 



Skinner Irrigation System in 



operation in Carnation field. 83 

 Soil scarifier, the Sydenham ... 95 

 Steaming the soil, inverted pan 



for 90 



Stem-rot disease 239 



Stopping young plants 123 



Supports, ring. 99, 100, loi, 102, 103 



Thorpe, John 25 



Thrips, result of attack by ... . 233 

 Varieties: 



Cottage Maid 151 



Gloriosa 139 



Gorgeous 59 



Enchantress Supreme 187 



Matchless, vase of. Frontispiece 



Mrs. C. W.Ward 44 



Peerless Pink 136 



Pink Sensation 49 



Princess Dagmar 143 



Rosette 67 



White Enchantress. 43 



White Perfection 42 



Winsor, bloom of, 157; vase 



of 200 



Yellow Prince 190 



Ward, Charles Willis 45 



