CONTEiNTS 



(For Classified Index see Pages 257-262.) 



Pages 

 Chapter I — The Carnation Family 1 1-16 



Chapter II — Development of the Carnation 17-50 



Chapter III — Profits on Carnations 5 1-56 



Chapter IV — Packing, Shipping and Business Matters 57-67 



Chapter V — General Cultural Calendar 68-1 16 



Chapter VI — Sectional Cultural Treatises 1 17-1 57 



Chapter VII — American Carnations in Europe 1 58-167 



Chapter VIII — The American Carnation as an Outdoor 



Bedding Plant 168-171 



Chapter IX — The Malmaison Carnation 172-175 



Chapter X — Border and Annual Carnations and Pinks 176-183 



Chapter XI — Varieties of the American Carnation 184-191 



Chapter XII — Hybridizing and Crossbreeding 192-203 



Chapter XIII — Exhibiting and Judging Carnations 204-212 



Chapter XIV — Best Type of Greenhouse 213-227 



Heating and Fuel 227-230 



Chapter XV — Insects, Diseases and Other Pests 232-252 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Annual or Marguerite Carna- Bench, side view of showing 



tions 180 construction, 224; molds for 



Aphis, result of attack by, cement posts 223 



108, 231, 233 Border Carnation propagated 



Bedding or Border Carnation by layering 1-7 



from seed 171 Box of Carnation blooms care- 

 Bench, concrete, McCasIan's fully packed 64 



sectional 226 Bud rot disease 249 



