BliOOMS PER PLANT. 



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The Chicago Carnation Co., as published in a trade journal 

 recently, has carefully counted the flowers cut from eight standard 

 varieties of carnations grown in 1900, ten years later than Mr. 

 Winterstaetter's figures. The company makes no mention of any 

 cuttings being taken. The report mns from October <S to June i, 

 embracing the whole flowering season of the plants, of the follow- 

 ing varieties: 



The general average of flowers per plant is fifteen. The 

 The number of cuttings taken from these plants, if any, should be 

 added to the number of flowers, which would increase the percent- 

 age per plant. The Chicago Carnation Co.'s flowers, doubtless, 

 were of a higher grade and were grown on advanced carnation 

 plants, and commanded a higher price than those harvested by 

 Mr. Winterstaetter, ten years previous. The tables enforce the 

 fact that the marvelous florescence of the earlier type ot carnations 

 is rapidly vanishing before the tireless strain for a better quality. 



That quality of carnation bloom is sacrificing quantity is 

 strikingly emphasized in ten years' time. In the third edition of 

 American Carnation Culture, R. W.Witterstaetter accurately 

 counted the flower crop for the season on Silver Spray, William 

 Swayne and Tidal Wave, three standard varieties, and they 

 averaged respectively, thirty-one blooms and five cuttings per 

 plant, twenty-six blooms and seven cuttings per plant, twenty- 

 seven blooms and seven cuttings per plant. 



