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some rights in an adjective name. The trade should prefix the 

 originator's name to every new carnation purchased, as, Dil- 

 lon's Queen Louise, Ward's Roosevelt, Dailledouze's Prosper- 

 ity, Weber's Norway, Fisher's Lawson, Witterstatter's Estelle, etc. 

 It would make men who put new carnations on the market 

 more cautious about their intrinsic merits, to know their names 

 were to be prominently associated with their failure or success. 

 It would be an assurance to the trade, and start a new roster of 

 more rythmical names for carnations. To the originators, at 

 first, it might appear critically bold, but they should not be super- 

 sensitive, when they now walk without emotion through the 

 necropolis of history and see their perfunctory certificates of 

 character in brackets decorating the graves of from five to fifty of 

 their own defunct carnations. 



I would put the carnation's name in parentheses and the 

 originator's name in base relief to show that they accomplished 

 much or little. 



A great fertilizer merits a fame fit to sit beside Alegatiere's. 

 An adventurer riots on the money of his victims. 



It is amusing to hear some cross-fertilizers expatiate on how 

 they led "Dame Nature" through the avenues of ancestral life 

 and corraled her as a paragon of merit. History .says that King 

 Canute threw away his sceptre, abandoned his throne and hung 

 his crown on the brow of a sculptured Christ, but there is no 

 instance on record of nature surrendering her empire, and hand- 

 ing her sceptre over to a pollen monger. Cross-fertilizers have 

 by accident accomplished much, but they are as ignorant of the 

 play of hereditary and vital forces as they are of their own destiny. 

 A fertilizer thinks he has imprisoned in some seed pods parental 

 force that will write his name beside Alegatiere's; he sows, grows 

 and flowers his thousand prize seeds. Fifty per cent of the batch 

 have lapsed to the single type that grew on the shores of the 

 Mediterranean two thousand years ago; some look a little like the 

 male parent, others like the mother plant, and the rest like 

 neither; but, like the hardy garden pink, some are freaks like a 

 "double headed calf," ' 'bearded woman" and "a what is it" 



