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JANOABT 30, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



21 



and from December to April are three 

 and one-half inches and over. Flowers 

 come early and the plants yield more per 

 season than any other light pink variety, 

 Enchantress included. The calyx is re- 

 markably strong and seldom splits; the 

 flower is an excellent keeper and ships 

 well. It is best grown in night tempera- 

 tures of 48 and 50 degrees. ' ' This vari- 

 ety will be disseminated during the sea- 

 eon of 1909-10. 



Defiance. 



The illustration on page 14 shows a 

 house of Carnation Defiance photographed 

 January 20 at the establishment of Jen- 

 sen & Dekema, Chicago. Defiance is a 

 seedling which flowered first in 1902 and 

 is now in its sixth year. It was raised by 

 W. N. Eudd. The cross was Estelle on a 

 scarlet seedling, having Macoo, Mrs. Mc- 

 Burney, Lizzie McGowan and Wm. Scott 

 blood in it. Its habit may be described 

 as a compromise between that of Maceo 

 and Estelle. Mr. Eudd says it retains 

 all, aid he believes more than, the free 

 bloomiag habit of Maceo. * "It is the 

 same compact, upright grower and pro- 

 duces absolutely no superfluous grass. The 

 color is better than Estelle and we be- 

 lieve it to be the brightest so-called scar- 

 let in cultivation. It is early and con- 

 tinuous in bloom. The form is fine and 

 under ordinary conditions it reaches a 

 size of three inches. The stem is longer 

 than that of Estelle; in fact, it is amply 

 long, growing from two feet to thirty 

 inches. It has a fine constitution and is 

 free from disease. We now have a bench 

 in good shape which was grown in the 

 house last year, lifted, planted in the 

 open ground, grown through the summer 

 and planted in again at the usual time in 

 the fall. This variety is not a show va- 

 riety and cannot compete on the exhibi- 

 tion table. We believe, however, that it 

 is the commercial scarlet for all purposes 

 and we feel sure it will make a record 

 for itself in dollars and cents for those 

 that grow it." 



Carnation Wanoka. 



Lloyd. 



A visit paid to H. A. Jahn, New Bed- 

 ford, Mass., a few days before Christ- 

 mas showed house after house of his 

 new white carnation, Lloyd, in fine shape. 

 It can easily be called a bread and but- 

 ter carnation. It is next to impossi- 

 ble to find a split flower among all the 

 10,000 plants; in fact, Mr. Jahn says 

 that his houses have gone as low as 34 

 degrees and still they hardly split at all. 



Carnation Qimaz. 



Lloyd originated five years ago with 

 Mr. Jahn, and is a pedigreed seedling. 

 The blooms are fully three to three and 

 one-half and often four inches across 

 and are borne on stiff stems from eight- 

 een inches to three feet long. It is 

 fragrant and a free bloomer. One day 

 last October Mr. Jahn picked 3,000 

 blooms from his 10,000 plants, all good 

 stock. At the beginning of January he 

 was picking about 1,800 blooms weekly, 

 which he is shipping to Boston. The 

 first year of this variety, from one plant 

 Mr. Jahn picked sixty-five flowers. It 

 of course was exceptional, but if any 

 one can beat this I would like to hear 

 about it. The way the plants are bloom- 

 ing and in such old houses, too, is a sight 

 the writer will never forget. What this 

 variety would do in a northern green- 

 house we leave to your own imagination. 



CARNATION HYBRIDIZING. 



[A paper by Richard Wltterstaetter, Clncln- 

 nat , O., read before the American Carnation 

 ^i*^«**, J^*, Washington convention, Januar 



^o to oO, 1808. J 



Some sixteen years ago, when I firs* 

 undertook the work of hybridizing tn© 

 carnation, I had very little knowledge 

 of nature's law regarding the results to 

 be expected from crossing the standard 

 commercial varieties of that date, and 

 concluded that experiments, with a com- 

 plete record of the parentage and the re- 

 sults, were necessary. As regards color, 

 size, stem, form, habit, freedom, etc., I 

 found, while we had some very good seed- 

 lings that pointed up well in everything 

 except color-— and color is a very impor- 

 tant factor in a commercial carnation — 

 that we got quite a few variegated, pur- 

 ples and off colors, and very few identi- 

 cal to the parent color. I concluded, 

 therefore, that this must be nature's law 

 in plant life, the same as in the human 

 race, and that blood would tell. Hence 

 subsequent breeding was carried on with 

 that point in view; namely, scarlets in a 

 race by themselves, whites in theirs, and 



