72 AMERICAN CARNATION CULTURE. 



B. T. Lombard has said he cut from Hector, flowers and cut- 

 tings, equaling eighty-four flowers per plant. 



W. R. Shelmire has said his flowers and cuttings equaled 

 fifty-four flowers per plant. 



W. Nicholson estimated eighty-three flowers per plant. 



J. C. Hoag, eighty blooms per plant. 



Joseph Renard, fifty five flowers per plant for half the season. 



H. E. Chitty, fifty-six flowers per plant, not estimating cut- 

 tings. 



DeWitt Bros., five flowers per plant for one month. 



B. W. Orr said: "I have just counted (Feb. lo, 1890) seventy- 

 five buds and blooms on one plant of Tenderess. Last winter, one 

 plant had on it at the same time, one hundred and twenty-five 

 buds and blooms." 



E. Swayne said: "I cut one hundred and ninety flowers from 

 Aurora during the season of 1890-91." 



The evidences may not be very pointed and conclusive that 

 the florescence of carnations is diminishing, the strong inference 

 of the fact rests in the known natural law that the increased size 

 of flower will decrease the number of blooms. 



The size of carnation flowers has been increased in diam- 

 eter in the last twenty-five years from two to four inches. 



