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This does not include twelve varieties of carnations with a 

 greater or less purple tinge to their petals. 



The purple class consists of: 



Roy des Violet, Flushing, Lady Rachel, 



Pupura, Fleta Fay Foster, Bonibell, 



Purple Crown, Purple Beauty, Villisco, 



Kazer William, Purple King, Lowell. 



None of these have taken positions of much importance. 

 Four of the twelve were imported. 



There has been originated and imported twenty-five solid yel- 

 low carnations, running a scale of shades from a pale lemon to 

 deep orange. 



Yellow Queen, Field of Gold, 



Yellow Jack, Cora Collins. 



Star Light, Cloth of Gold, 



Old Gold, Eldorado, 



M. E. Gobet, J. B. Jackner, 



Henrietta Sargent, Pride of Penhurst, 



Germania, Sunshine, 



Golden Triumph, Venus, 



Golden Gate, W. J. Burk, 



Gold Coin, Andalusia, 



Gold Nugget, Ben Halliday, 



Eliza Furgurson, Bouton de' Or. 



At least eight of this list were imported. This class of colored 

 carnations is erratic in its habits and does not reach the average 

 in productiveness of bloom, but when it sorts with other colors 

 the product is often robust plants, good bloomers with magnifi- 

 cent yellow-variegated corollas of the Buttercup and Chester Pride 

 types. Carnation plants, as a rule, are the most florescent that 

 blow solid pink, scarlet and white colored flowers. Pure yellow 

 flowers are borne on plants so shy and capricious that many do 

 not attempt their cultivation, but use some yellow-variegated kind 

 to supply this color. The color hues of carnation flowers are 



