ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



sources have been made or quoted, care has been taken to 

 acknowledge them either in the text or in the footnotes. 

 The general chapter on cultivation is mainly from the 

 lucid writings of Fritz Bahr, Highland Park, III., in The 

 Florists' Exchange. The Proceedings of the American 

 Carnation Society, 1892-1914, have also been consulted 

 on many points. 



For permission to use photographs we tender thanks 

 to the Directors of the New Jersey Experiment Station, 

 and the Vermont Agricuhural Experiment Station; to 

 Cassell & Co., and Methuen & Co., London, Eng.; Carna- 

 tion Support Co., Connersville, Ind.; Hitchings & Co., 

 Ehzabeth, N. J.; Skinner Irrigation Co., Troy, Ohio; 

 Sutton & Sons, Reading, Eng.; A. A. Gannett, Geneva, 

 N. Y.; also to Chas. W. Johnston, Morgan Park, III., for 

 material for photographing 



