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prominent are Mrs. C. W. Ward and Gloriosa. When we 

 take into consideration that the variety Philadelphia was a 

 novelty in 1914, a large number were planted, but the grow- 

 ers complained that it was not up to their expectations, 

 and are growing less of it. A few Rose Pink Enchantress 

 are still grown, but the one-time favorites of this color, 

 namely, Wm. Scott, Argyle, Rose Queen, Mrs. Nelson, 

 Winona, Mrs. Joost and Sangamo, have all disappeared. 



Benora is the only variety grown of the variegated 

 type, and this not extensively. The demand for variegated 

 Carnations is very limited and of late years very few have 

 been seen around this section. When the variety, Mrs. 

 Geo. M. Bradt, was sent out it caught the growers' fancy 

 so much that they stocked up with it rather heavily, con- 

 sequently large numbers of all grades of quality were 

 shipped in to the market and the buyers got tired of them, 

 and from that time have been slow to handle variegated 

 Carnations. Prosperity, another old-time variety with a 

 different style of variegation, did not command the favor 

 in this part of the country that it did in some others. 



The conditions regarding the variegated varieties also 

 apply to yellows — very few are grown, but there used to be 

 quite a number seen here. Buttercup, Eldorado, Gold- 

 finch, Mayor Pingree and a few others had their time. 



Crimsons are grown in limited quantity, most of them 

 being seedlings still in the hands of the raisers. The 

 raising and disseminating of new varieties have been carried 

 on quite extensively in this region. The Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co., Joliet, III., during its business career was noted 

 as a raiser of seedlings and as a disseminator of new varieties, 

 having distributed more new Carnations than any other 

 firm in this section. Of its own seedlings the following 

 are the most prominent: Her Majesty, Mrs. Higginbotham, 



