. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 158 The American Florist. Feb. 17. of the committee. A long discussion followed, in which C. W. Ward, C. H. Totty, Louis Dupuy and John Birnie offered to donate the prize money for the different evenings. Ultimately the matter was deferred to the March meet- ing, Patrick O'Mara giving the notice, required by the by-laws, that he would move at the next meeting for the appro- priation of a sum sufficient to pay the premiums to be awarded for the carna- tion exhibits. C. W. Ward, of the Cottage Gardens Co., was then
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 158 The American Florist. Feb. 17. of the committee. A long discussion followed, in which C. W. Ward, C. H. Totty, Louis Dupuy and John Birnie offered to donate the prize money for the different evenings. Ultimately the matter was deferred to the March meet- ing, Patrick O'Mara giving the notice, required by the by-laws, that he would move at the next meeting for the appro- priation of a sum sufficient to pay the premiums to be awarded for the carna- tion exhibits. C. W. Ward, of the Cottage Gardens Co., was then presented to the meeting, and delivered a lecture on "The Carna- ; His lecture was illustrated by stereopticon and colored slides. Mr. Ward dealt with the flower from its earliest origin, and advanced the theory that the expansion in diameter of blooms by culture was about an inch in 1,000 years. He illustrated an original five petalled flower, with others radiating to the double flower of to-day. Comment- ing on hybridization he threw a slide showing the brush, tweezers and lens used for this work in his establishment, but expressed his approval of the prac- tice of others in using blotting paper coned to a point for the transference of the pollen. He then showed the dif- ferent stages in fertilization from pol- lenization to the ripening of the result- ing seed pod, which manifested itself in from six to eight weeks after the cross- ing. Seedlings in their early stages were also illustrated, and the methods of planting them explained. His practice was to plant them in the benches about six inches apart each way. He dwelt on the great advisability of keeping a rec- ord of a cross from the start, and the necessity of recording all that was known of the parent stock, so that any peculiarity in habit could be easily traced. In regard to working for a par- ticular color, he said the chance of get- ting the color wanted lay in the equa- tion of the pedigree. Several
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