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AMERICAN CARNATION CULTURE. 



plant's life. Life lives in cells, cells are the primal units of life. 

 A cutting consists of thousands associated cells. A carnation cut- 

 ting, apparently healihy, taken from a Rust diseased plant, will 

 develop the disease in the cutting bench, which can only be 

 done by transmission of the malady to the progeny by root germs. 



This theory of the etiology, and pathology of the Rust 

 Disease, is supported by facts and unravels many paradoxes and 

 solves riddles of the sphinx. It explains why cuttings are at- 

 tacked with Rust in the pro})agating bench. Why a variety 

 exempt one season is affected the next; why measures against it 

 must be prophylactic and not remedial; why some plants seems to 

 be immunes to Rust when their close neighbors are badly affected; 

 why promising new varieties as Blanch, Edna Craig, Jacque- 

 minot, Uncle John, and others, having contracted Rust constitu- 

 tion, transmitted them and were soon dropped from the roster of 

 commercial varieties. 



The importance of Bacteria lies in their insignificance. Their 

 strength is in their weakness, their devastation in their unseen 

 methods. The aggregation of atomic forces works amazing 

 results; the coral insect builds rock based islands in the ocean. 



The following formulas as preventative therapeutics for Rust 

 are invaluable and should never be neglected. Some are said to be 

 specifics for Rust in the initiative and local phase of its progress. 



Fia:. I. 

 Leaf of Carnalion, wiih several rust pustules. 



Prophylactic treatment is the only cure for Rust, but it can 

 be held in check by the use of various fungicides. 



REMKDIES. 



Mr. Dorner's formula has proven effective for pustules. It is 

 as follows: 



