CONTENTS 



(For Classified Index see Pages 257-262.) 



Pages 

 Chapter I — The Carnation Family , 1 1-16 



Chapter II — Development of the Carnation 17-50 



Chapter III — Profits on Carnations 51-56 



Chapter IV — Packing, Shipping and Business Matters 57-67 



Chapter V — General Cultural Calendar 68-1 16 



Chapter VI — Sectional Cultural Treatises 117-1 57 



Chapter VII — American Carnations in Europe 1 58-167 



Chapter VIII — ^The American Carnation as an Outdoor 



Bedding Plant 168-171 



Chapter IX — The Malmaison Carnation 172-175 



Chapter X — Border and Annual Carnations and Pinks 176-183 



Chapter XI — Varieties of the American Carnation 184-191 



Chapter XII — Hybridizing and Crossbreeding 192-203 



Chapter XIII — Exhibiting and Judging Carnations 204-212 



Chapter XIV — Best Type of Greenhouse 213-227 



Heating and Fuel 227-230 



Chapter XV — Insects, Diseases and Other Pests 232-252 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Annual or Marguerite Carna- Bench, side view of showing 



tions 180 construction, 224; molds for 



Aphis, result of attack by, cement posts 223 



108, 231, 233 Border Carnation propagated 



Bedding or Border Carnation by layering 177 



from seed 171 Box of Carnation blooms care- 

 Bench, concrete, McCasIan's fully packed 64 



sectional 226 Bud rot disease 249 



