154 CARNATIONS IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY 



dark pink group, Mrs. C. W. Ward has occupied the most 

 prominent place for several years past, this being a home 

 product, so to speak, and, with Matchless, has done much 

 to add to the prestige of the Cottage Gardens Co. of Queens. 



Among the red varieties. Beacon has taken the lead 

 for several years past, some of the Long Island growers 

 being especially successful in its cultivation and producing 

 enormous quantities of high-grade flowers throughout the 

 season. Crimson Carnations are not demanded in very 

 large quantities in New York market, and various varieties 

 of that color are handled in moderate numbers, among them 

 being Crimson Glow, Pocahontas and Harry Fenn. Benora 

 is the most favored of the variegated sorts. 



In regard to culture, the majority of the growers of 

 New York and New Jersey use the field method of prepara- 

 tion for the young stock, planting out in the open ground 

 during the latter part of April and the beginning of May, 

 keeping the ground w^ell cultivated and the plants properly 

 cared for until the time arrives for planting in the green- 

 houses, the date of the latter operation ranging from the 

 2oth of July to the 15th of August, according to the weather 

 and the condition of the plants. 



Indoor culture all Summer is favored by a few growers, 

 and has the advantage of producing longer flower stems 

 early in the season, w^hile the opponents of this method 

 claim that not only do the plants so grown produce a less 

 number of flowers, but that the constitution of a Carnation 

 is debilitated by continuous indoor culture. That the net 

 results of Carnation growing for the New York market 

 recently have not been specially encouraging to the growers, 

 will doubtless be admitted by most of them, the wholesale 

 prices having been far from satisfactory in most instances. 

 Whether this has been due to an oversupply, or whether 



