CHAPTER III. 



CARNATIONS FROM STARR TO SECOND YEAR OF TWENTIETH 

 CENTURY— IMPORTATIONS -YEARLY INTRODUCTIONS- 

 NUMBER OF NAMED KINDS— AN ANALYSIS 

 OF THE LIST. 



THE entire genus of the Dianthus family of plants is na- 

 tives of Europe. Some of the indigenous species were 

 hybridized and the product cross-fertilized by Dalmias, 

 Schmitt and Alegatiere, which worked a revolution in their nature, 

 and established a new species of the Dianthus genus of plants. 

 There is not a variety of the pink tribe that will bear forcing and 

 bloom continuously; but the varieties originated by Alegatiere, 

 La Puritie and Edwardsii, are the great-grand-parents of all the 

 remontant types of carnations in America today. 



Since their introduction, forty-three yearsa go this spring, 

 they have multiplied varieties to eight hundred named kinds. 

 The originators' names of one hundred and twenty of this list 

 are unknown; about one hundred of the number have been im- 

 ported into the carnation belt from Europe, and seventy-five 

 from California; in the list are thirty known bud variations, or 

 sports, and six synonyms. 



Things polarize at points. A hundred varieties of carnations 

 have originated close to where Lady Emma, the first cross-fertil- 

 ized carnation in America, germinated. 



After January, 1897, I name yearly the most promising new 

 introductions, and their originators' names. During forty years 

 there has been concerned in the development of the carnation, one 

 hundred and forty different practical observing men, who have 

 furnished what they deemed acquisitions to the list of carnations. 



Starr contributed, 55 Zeiler contributed, 9 



Dorner " 43 Creighton " 9 



Simmons " 40 Brinton " 7 



