CHAPTER XXVIII. 



THE NEMESIS OF CARNATIONS -CAUSE, OF^ THEIR FLOWERS 

 "GOING TO SLEEP" -CAUSE OF THEIR CALYXES BURST- 

 ING RUST A CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASE- STIGMO- 

 NOSE VS. BACTERIOSIS. 



AN ideal carnation for pots would materially differ from those 

 grown on benches for commercial flowers. It would have 

 a compact base, canes of moderate length, given to a pro- 

 fusion of average size crown and terminal flowers on short stems. 



The susceptible nature of carnations to the modifying influence 

 of the florists' art by parental selection and cross- pollenization 

 could doubtless in a few years obtain this type and overcome the 

 plant's dislike of root restraint in pots and develop a variety that 



