The American Carnation. 113 
Zeller, and General Grant, grown chiefly as pot 
plants and attracting a considerable amount of at- 
tention. Altogether the firm offered 54 varieties for 
sale somewhere between 1862 and 1872. 
About the same time a seedling was raised and 
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AMERICAN CARNATION GENERAL MACEO. 
named Victor Emanuel (Syn. Astoria) by Donati, 
a florist of Astoria, Long Island. It was flaked and 
striped with red on a yellow ground and became 
one of the most famous of the early American 
Carnations. Mr. Ward considers it probably the 
