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AMERICAX CARNATIOX CULTURE 



Thirty originators have contributed less than five, and one 

 hundred and twenty-seven originators have contributed but one. 

 Many carnations were named but never disseminated, and many 

 more \vere disseminated that proved ^vorthless; about fifty in the 

 list are marked improvements with strong individualized charac- 

 ters. The rest should quietly sleep in the catacombs of defunct 

 carnations. 



The first edition of American Carnation Culture, pub- 

 lished in 1885, the author secured from the growers of carnations in 

 fifteen different states a list of varieties they deemed most valu- 

 able at that time. They grew the following kinds, with preference 

 in the order named: 



Portia 



Prest. De Graw 



Buttercup 



Henzie's White 



Edwardsii 



Snow^den 



Grace Wilder 



Crimson King 



Grace Fardon 



Chester Pride 



Mrs. Joliff 



Peter Henderson 

 T. Mangold 

 Chas. Henderson 

 Mrs. Carnegie 

 Queen of Whites 

 Scarlet Gem 

 Peerless 

 Alegatiere 

 Century 

 Prest. Garfield 

 Princess Louise 



Robt. Craig 



Snowball 



Sunrise 



Duke of Orange 



Seawan 



Othello 



Astoria 



Pride of Penhurst 



Fisher's White 



Sea Foam 



The following comprises the varieties preferred b}^ the grow- 

 ers in the first year of the twentieth century, fifteen years later. 

 Some growers, responding to enquiries this year, have named 

 three or four kinds of the same class of colors they grow. To 

 generalize and economize space, the first one named has been 

 chosen as their preference. The introductions of 1900 and 1901, 

 not being sufl&ciently tested by growers, are not named in the 

 twentieth century list of preferred kinds cultivated. 



