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DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARNATION 



gap somewhere. The hst of Mr. Dorner's varieties includes 

 the following, and it will be seen that herein are very 

 many of the most famous Carnations that have been in 

 commerce. The hst, however, is not an exhaustive one: 



One reason of his success was that he had an intimate 

 knowledge of the varieties he worked with, and of the 

 parentage of each of them. These facts suggested to him 

 whether or not a certain variety would be the basis of a 

 good flower in its offspring. After the first few years no 

 foreign varieties were used at all, owing to the fact that 

 these might have had ancestors with objectionable charac- 

 ters, which characters might show up in the progeny. 



DORNER S IDEAL CARNATION PLANT 



Prof. Dorner records his father's ideal of what a good 

 Carnation should be. " It was a plant that should have 

 branches in all stages of development, and when planted in 

 the bench should show the same number of flowers and 

 buds during the entire year. The leaves of the plant were 

 to be |broader and shorter than those varieties that belong 

 to the class known as croppers. The leaves were to have 



