BETTER CARNATIONS FOR 1943— & fgtl 

The picture above shows the inside of Pesche’s cloth house and shows how well these plants are producing. 
The close-up is a picture of Fred Pesche and his three daughters, from left to right: Dolores, Marie Therese 
and Lorraine. The other figure is Charles Newbold who looks after our plant sales. 
CARNATIONS UNDER CLOTH 
Our readers may recall an article in September 1941 issue of GROWER TALKS describ- 
ing a test planting of Carnations here at West Chicago that had been carried on from 
May until frost. This method of growing carnations in a cloth house aroused a con- 
siderable amount of interest and one grower in the Chicago district decided to make a 
real test of this method. 
Fred Pesche, who is one of the most progressive growers around Chicago and who 
operates greenhouses at Des Plaines, planted four one hundred and fifty foot beds 
in a cloth house between May 1st and 10th of Peter Fisher and White Peter Fisher. 
These cuttings were rooted in December and early January, placed in wooden plant 
bands and planted from them directly in the cloth house. 
Cutting flowers started on July 20th. The size of the flowers and the length and 
quality of the stem is equal to indoor grown winter stock. In spite of an extra early 
frost in the Chicago area that checked the growth of the plants and reduced the number 
of flowers that would have been cut, Fred Pesche averaged over four blooms per plant. 
These flowers were sent to the Chicago wholesale market and also used in his extensive 
retail business. In order to secure a successful crop of flower before frost, cuttings must 
be taken as early as possible; these must be grown on, without a check so that there is 
a maximum number of shoots that will flower before fall. 
