AMERICAN CARNATIONS IN ENGLAND l6l 



variety, but we are inclined to think that if more care and 

 attention were given during the Summer months, better 

 crops would be obtained. 



As every American grower will understand, there is a ' 

 great deal of difference in the climates. The Briton envies 

 the American his brighter Winter light, and the American 

 may envy the Briton his moist Summer heat. During the 

 Winter months it is very seldom they get, in the south of 

 England, over 20 degrees of frost, and we doubt if it is on 

 record when a zero temperature has occured in the county 

 of Sussex. If the English had a colder Winter it would 

 help them considerably, because they would use more fire 

 heat and so dry out the houses, whereas with a warm, damp, 

 dull atmosphere, they have no opportunity of doing this, 

 hence the growth of the plants becomes soft, and no watering 

 is required in Midwinter for, say, five weeks. The details 

 of attention to the plants are practically the same as in 

 America during the Spring, Summer and Autumn, but the 

 Winters are entirely different. 



The best modern English greenhouses are very similar 

 to those of American growers, in fact they are imitations. 

 Perhaps the main difference is that there is more ironwork 

 in American houses, but then the Enghsh ones work out at 

 a considerably cheaper figure, and the ironwork is not so 

 necessary there, as not much snow falls neither do 

 they get the heavy frosts. The method of heating is 

 very similar in both countries except that it is not necessary 

 to have the same quantity of pipes in England, and the 

 majority are 3 in. or 4 in. pipes. Steam heating is practi- 

 cally unknown. Perhaps the overhead heating system is 

 of the greatest advantage to the Enghsh grower, because 

 in Winter it dries up the atmosphere. The old-style cast- 

 iron saddle boiler was popular years ago, then the cast-iron 



