ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Speaking of it in the broadest terms, the Carnation is 

 a very remarkable flower and no society and no person 

 has yet fully done justice to its history or to all the attri- 

 butes surrounding it. We believe we are fulfilling a need 

 in publishing Commercial Carnation Culture. Much 

 useful and informative matter has been collected, and 

 the plan that we began in "Sweet Peas for Profit," of having 

 cultural treatises from different sections of this continent, 

 has been followed. Acknowledgment and hearty thanks 

 are herein tendered to those who have assisted with contri- 

 butions as nientioned in the following fist: 



George W. Allwood. — ^"American Carnations in England." 

 F. J. Ammann, St. Louis, Mo. — " Carnations in the St. Louis Region." 

 J. G. Baclier, jPortland, Ore. — ^"Carnations in tlie Pacific Northwest." 

 A. F. J. Baur, Indianapolis, Ind. — " Crossbreeding and Hybridizing Carnations." 

 E. T. Cook (the late), Toronto, Can. — " Carnations in Ontario." 

 L. J. Cook, Bush Hill Park, Mdx., Eng. — "The American Carnation as a Bed- 

 ding Plant." 

 Wm. F. Gude, Washington, D. C. — " Carnations at Washington, D. C." 

 S. J. Goddard, Framingham, Mass. — -"Exhibiting and Judging Carnations." 

 Albert M. Herr, Lancaster, Pa. — "Carnations in Pennsylvania." 

 Chas. W. Johnston, Morgan Park, 111. — " Carnations in Chicago and Illinois." 

 S. J. Mitchell, Houston, Tex. — " Carnations in the South." 

 A. A. Pembroke, Beverly, Mass. — " Varieties of the American Carnation." 

 Samuel Redstone, Philadelphia, Pa. — " The Best Type of Greenhouse." 

 H. R. Richards, Los Angeles, Cai. — " Carnations in Southern California." 

 J.A. Valentine, Denver,Colo. — "Carnations in Colorado and the Mountain States." 

 Joseph M. Wilkin, ConnersvUle, Ind. — "Carnation Supports." 



In addition, the editor has to acknowledge the kind 

 permission granted by C. Harman Payne, Caterham, 

 Kent, England, to reprint the fist of books on Carnations 

 from his Florists' Bibliography, a most useful work. The 

 chapter on " Carnations in Europe " is reprinted in an 

 abridged form by permission of the author, C. Engel- 

 mann, from the Year Book of the Perpetual Flowering 

 Carnation Society, 1914; and wherever extracts from other 



