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CUSS the work of some of these men, but it would require a 

 volume in itself to exhaust and explain the part played by 

 the Indiana and Ohio growers. 



From Toledo and Cleveland in the north, through 

 Akron, Youngstown, Richmond, Columbus, Cincinnati, and 

 westward to Indianapolis, Terre Haute, etc., there is a 

 regular chain of notable growers and of large Carnation 

 estabhshments. The cultivation practices, however, are so 

 similar to those already discussed by the writers representing 

 Illinois and Missouri on the one hand, and Pennsylvania 

 and New York on the other, that more is not called for in 

 this connection. 



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In this quarter cuttings are taken in December. 

 Propagate them in clean sand, and as soon as they are rooted 

 pot them off into 2 in., afterward shifting them into 3 in. 

 pots. In April, or as soon as possible thereafter, plant 

 them out into the open field where they remain until 

 July, when they are planted indoors and cared for under 

 ordinary conditions. It has been found that the plan of 

 planting them out into the field for several months is far 

 preferable and more profitable than keeping them indoors 

 all Summer. After a number of years of experience in 

 growing Carnations, the writer has found, by keeping an 

 accurate record of two houses of Carnations, each con- 

 taining 9,000 plants growling side by side under the same 

 conditions, that the following results were obtained: 

 From plants placed out of doors and lifted in July and 

 planted indoors, the average yield was twenty-three flowers 

 per plant, while in the other house, planted with plants 

 from 4 in. pots, which had not been out of doors at all, the 

 average was fourteen flowers per plant. While the flowers 



