. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 116 The American Florist. Aug. 14^ modern carnation culture, we failed to root olver 10 per cent. It would not have been safe for you to talk to the owners 'of ^Mrs. Nelson that year on the elevating irifluence of flowers. Nothing: short of diabolism itself could have been more tantalizing than the antics of that magnificent beauty. EASTEEJV AND WESTERN BEAUTIES. "Our firm has at different times test- ed for their owners a number of aspir- ants for favor with varying success, its a risky thing to do; if they
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 116 The American Florist. Aug. 14^ modern carnation culture, we failed to root olver 10 per cent. It would not have been safe for you to talk to the owners 'of ^Mrs. Nelson that year on the elevating irifluence of flowers. Nothing: short of diabolism itself could have been more tantalizing than the antics of that magnificent beauty. EASTEEJV AND WESTERN BEAUTIES. "Our firm has at different times test- ed for their owners a number of aspir- ants for favor with varying success, its a risky thing to do; if they fail to make good, the owner will always have a doubt in his mind as to whether all the conditions were just right to bring out their good points; the gentleman, who does the testing, and his grower, will have arguments about wasted space and the nice discrimination needed in endorsing a novelty. Less than a decade ago, your toastmaster went down into the east to take a last look at a fine white seedling which we were to test, and if satisfactory to help disseminate; it showed up so fine down in its eastern home that he could hard- ly wait to get the stock planted on his own place. In the meantime, our Fred H. Lemon had gone up into the north- west on a similar errand with regard to a gorgeous pink; on his return he gave the usual wheatfield description, buds and blooms knocking their heads together—and such heads—on such stems! "E. G. ; wanted a south bench to test his white beauty and "F. H. ; insisted on a southern exposure for his glorified pink; they each had a 200-foot bench facing south in the best 400-foot house. When the date of the annual meeting of this so- ciety came around, where the white beauty and the glorified pink were to take your breath away, "B. G. H.'s" south bench was covered with a dense growth of pale green carnation grass which would have required a scythe to cut it and not a flower in sight, while "F. H. L.'s
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