146 AMERICAN CARNATION CULTURE. 



Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. McGowen are the best tested out-door 

 summer bloomers. 



Thomas Dale of Canada, a competent judge, says Canada 

 cannot produce carnations equal to those grown in the States. 



Mature carnation plants are not hardy in the temperate zone, 

 while their seedhngs are, which shows how easily cultivated 

 strains of vegetation return to their normal type. 



Large carnation flowers are obtained at the expense of many 

 smaller ones. Nature is economical. When it is extravagant in 

 one direction it always economizes in another. 



Dark pink carnations and those with solid colors have the 

 best constitutions, and are more florescent and cosmopolitan in 

 their habits, than the shaded and variegated kinds. 



Quality in carnation flowers is the demand of its admirers, 

 and the slogan of successful growers. Fame and fortunes of 

 culturists have been built on "quality." Perseverence and close 

 attention to details in growing is the evangel of success and 

 quality. 



The American continent has not yet given mankind as great 

 a variety of food and flowers as some others, but in it originated 

 the great food staple of Indian corn, and the potato. It has 

 developed in Dianthus Superba, the loftiest symbol of poetry and 

 the potato the most substantial prose of life. 



The great commercial and vital differences between pinks 

 with their marvelous single crops of multitudinous flowers, in 

 July and August, and carnations, are: the immense short-lived 

 crop of bloom with pinks is evenly distributed through the life of 

 carnations from October to July and the latter kindly respond to 

 the sorcery of artificial heat, which is death to pinks. 



