. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. Annual meeting and exhibition, Boston, Mass., March 22-26, 1906. Alex Montsomert, Natick, Mass., president; Wm. J. Stewart, U Hamilton Place, Boston, Maas., secretary. THE AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. Annual convention and exhibition at Toronto, Canada. January, 1907. JohnH. Dunlop, Toronto, Canada, preside'nt; Albert M. Herr. Lancaster, Pa., The Modern Carnation. Extracts from a paper read before the Horticultural Society of New York. February 14, 1906, by Robert Craig, of Philad
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. Annual meeting and exhibition, Boston, Mass., March 22-26, 1906. Alex Montsomert, Natick, Mass., president; Wm. J. Stewart, U Hamilton Place, Boston, Maas., secretary. THE AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. Annual convention and exhibition at Toronto, Canada. January, 1907. JohnH. Dunlop, Toronto, Canada, preside'nt; Albert M. Herr. Lancaster, Pa., The Modern Carnation. Extracts from a paper read before the Horticultural Society of New York. February 14, 1906, by Robert Craig, of Philadelphia. The carnation as grown today is almost exclusively a florists' flower, and hybridizers have been breeding to improve this strain, but there is a wider and more important field for them—the development of garden carnations hardy enough to live through the winter without protection in the latitude of Philadelphia and New York, and with the quality of bloom- ing through the summer. The dis- cussion of this idea might form a lengthy paper in itself, so I will con- fine my remarks to varieties crrown under glass for counter bloom. It would not be wise for me, in view of the fact that at the present time the literature of the carnation is so voluminous, to attempt to give you a comprehensive and detailed history of the wonderful flower as we know it today, and as we see it here on the tables to-night. There is more space in the garden- ing papers devoted to the carnation than to any other plant or flower. The minutest details as to soils to be used, and methods of culture to be observed, as well as criticisms and descriptions of new varieties as they appear, with histories of the achievements of each in the competitive exhibitions through- out the country, with able discussions on the ancestry of each pedigreed va- riety ; its vigor of constitution or lack of it; its freedom of bloom or its fail- ure to have this very desirable quality; its desirable habit of commencing to
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