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TREE OR WINTER-FLOWERING 



CARNATION. 



By Harry Turner. 



No section of tlio Carnations has shown such a 

 marked improvement in recent years as the family 

 of the Tree or Perpetual-Flowering. Those who 

 remember the varieties of twenty-five years ago — 

 tall, lanky, and inelegant, spare of bloom and scant 

 of foliage — and compare them with the best of 

 the present day, must admit that wonders have 

 been done with this extremely useful section of 

 Autumn and Winter-Flowering Carnations. They 

 comm.ence to bloom almost before the period of 

 flowering of the summer varieties is over, and with 

 proper management they can be made to carry on 

 the floral succession to April and May. A true 

 Winter-Flowering Carnation is a plant that not 

 only develops main stems to produce blossoni, but 

 continues to throw out lateral growths or side- 

 branches, that in their turn furnish flowers. A 

 model Tree Carnation is a plant two-and-a-half feet 

 in height, bushy, with numerous side-groAvths spring- 

 ing from the main stem, vigorous in habit and pro- 

 fuse of bloom. It should be stated that it is mainly 

 due to my late father that the habit and growth of 



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