BoE DIOR YR Ca A RON AdTOT OUNUS RIOR TED: 4529” Gg Gee 
SUMMER CARNATIONS 
Charley Newbold. (Taken from Sept., 1941 Grower Talks) 
A test planting of Carnations here at West Chicago to be grown under 
cloth in the Spring of 1941 was arranged for last Fall. We took some cut- 
tings in the latter part of November of Peter Fisher, Puritan and King 

The writer inspects Peter Fisher Carnations under cloth at West Chicago. 
Planted outside early May in Plant Bands. Photo taken August 12th. First 
flowers cut July 25th, making a nice supply of carnations in the off-season. 
Cardinal. As soon as these cuttings were rooted, they were placed in our 
regular 214” wooden plant bands and carried in these bands in flats until 
early May and then planted in bands in the cloth house with the idea of 
having blooms during the summer when there are no Carnations being 
cut from the greenhouses. There were approximately 420 Peter Fisher 
plants for this test. These were planted 7x9” in ground beds. By ground 
beds we mean directly on the ground, no side boards and no benches of 
any kind. We also planted 420 Puritan and just 18 King Cardinal at the 
same time. 
These were grown along and were only given one feeding of 5-15-5,. 
florist mixture. This was applied at the rate of four pounds to a hundred 
square feet of bench surface. All plants grew well under these conditions, 
but Peter Fisher was outstanding in that it started to flower much earlier 
than Puritan or King Cardinal. They started blooming the end of July and 
we will get three to five flowers from each plant before the first of Sep- 
tember. There is a second crop coming up from below from which we 
may cut another crop of flowers providing we do not have a severe frost 
early this season. The stems of Peter Fisher average about 24”. They 
are strong, stiff and the flower is almost equal to size of our winter cut. 
The flower apparently does not fade as rapidly as Peter Fisher does in 
the greenhouses along in March and April. 
The results of experiments so far this summer have been considered 
fairly satisfactory. We are going to attempt several more beds next year 
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