CHAPTER X 
PERPETUAL-FLOWERING CARNATIONS 
By THOMAS H. COOK, F.R.HS. 
To France belongs the honour of having, some sixty-seven 
years ago, raised the present type of Carnation which is 
distinct from all others in its habit of perpetual flowering. 
Mons. Dalmais and Mons. Schmidt, of Lyons, were the 
pioneer raisers of this race, which was obtained from the 
remontant or monthly Carnation crossed with the Flemish 
Carnation, the offspring of these in turn being carefully 
selected and recrossed with each other about twenty years 
later by Mons. Alegatiére, also of Lyons, who distributed 
what were then called the Tree Carnations. There is reason 
for supposing that tree Carnations were cultivated in France 
nearly one hundred years earlier, but it is to the more 
recent date that we must ascribe that development which 
has played the most important part in the spread and 
popularity of the Perpetual-Flowering Carnation. 
About the year 1852 the old tree Carnations engaged 
the attention of American floriculturists, and a French 
florist of New York, named Mons. Marc, raised several 
seedlings of the remontant type, from seed sent from 
France. At a later date Messrs. Dailledouze, Zeller, and 
Gard secured seed from the same source, from which 
they raised the first American plants. During the next 
twenty years, enterprising horticulturists in various parts 
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