50 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARNATION 



Wootten, E. J. 



The Perpetual Flowering Carnation and how to grow it indoors and outdoors 

 Winchester and London, 1914. 

 Wright, Walter P. 



Pictorial Practical Carnation Growing. A Concise Guide, etc. London, 1906. 



Here we can now terminate this Carnation chronology, 

 but not without expressing the hope that it will be our 

 privilege and pleasure to continue the history at some 

 later date. In it is outlined in sketch the garlanded trail 

 of ages of the Cloveworts, but when the true, complete, 

 authoritative calendar and history of all the branches of 

 the Carnation family comes to be written, remember that 

 it will have to comprise the full story of the old European 

 Picotees, the famous flaked Carnations of Ray, Miller, 

 Hogg, and later growers; the history of the superb selfs 

 raised by Martin Smith and Jas. Douglas, the story like- 

 wise of the Malmaisons and even of the floriferous Mar- 

 guerite section, short though the latter may be. We of to- 

 day seem so much in a hurry that we scarcely stop to take 

 due notice of the noble flowers we have, or to paint a 

 picture of them for posterity, as some of the florists of the 

 50's of last century did, " that golden period of floricul- 

 ture," as Richard Dean used to call it. Our flowers and 

 plants are as part of us; they are certainly divine flowers — 

 God's messengers. We should prize them fully. 



