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AMEBICAN CARNATION CULT^URE. 



Charles Starr stood dumb and dizzy before the illuminated letter 

 his tactful fingers had evolved in the "Alphabet of Angels." It 

 is as robust and vigorous today as when nature's Raphael glori- 

 fied its corolla with witching colors, painted on the petals, in the 

 morning of its natal bloom. Mythology says, but one immortal- 

 ity was granted the twins, Polux and Castor, so they lived and 

 died alternately. Science mocks at the myth that Buttercup is 

 given an immortality that is denied the rest of its species. 



TYPE OF CARNATION WITH INDENTED PETALS. 



