DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARNATION 



45 



Among the large number of varieties that are un- 

 mentioned, and that " also ran," there have been some 

 beauties of which great things had been hoped, which have 

 been admired and valued, which 

 have had their short day and 

 disappeared; just as numbers of 

 one's old schoolmates gave great 

 promise in the morning of life, 

 only to fall later into obscurity. 

 Every Carnation that has 

 been an advance over existing 

 sorts has been a thin stepping- 

 stone toward that perfection to 

 which we aspire, and those of 

 us who have taken them up and 

 tried them have been bearing 

 only our share of building up the 

 secure monument of the People's Charles Willis Ward 

 T-.T Born on the site of the present city 



rJOWer. of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, in 1857. 



A veiy careful raiser of Carnations 



for many years at Queens, L. I., 



and formerly a great force in the 



Carnation world. His best introduc- 



A T_._T ^ ^T r^ _._• T tion was undoubtedly Mrs. C. W. 



Although the Carnation has ward. 

 not received so much attention 



from floral artists as the Rose, there are still some exquisite 

 paintings of beautiful blooms insome of the specialistic 

 publications of the middle and latter half of last century. 

 The Carnation has also a remarkable literature of its own. 

 More than eighty books have been published dealing with 

 it, the names of which have been compiled by Mr. C. 

 Harman Payne of London, Eng., and published in his 

 " Florists' Bibliography," a work that every student of 

 floral literature ought to possess. This notable and vol- 

 uminous list, which follows, speaks eloquently of the wide- 



