. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 112 The American Florist. Aug. JO, however, were of such a nature that I could not well do otherwise than ac- cept his invitation, but with this un- derstanding—that I would not be ex- pected to occupy very much of your valuable time. It may not be inapprop^iate at the outset to say that my first interest in the carnation dates back nearly a quar- ter of a century, when as a young man I began a three year greenhouse ap- prenticeship. This was prior to the day of the long-stemmed carnation, when such varieties as B
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 112 The American Florist. Aug. JO, however, were of such a nature that I could not well do otherwise than ac- cept his invitation, but with this un- derstanding—that I would not be ex- pected to occupy very much of your valuable time. It may not be inapprop^iate at the outset to say that my first interest in the carnation dates back nearly a quar- ter of a century, when as a young man I began a three year greenhouse ap- prenticeship. This was prior to the day of the long-stemmed carnation, when such varieties as Boule de Neige and Alegatiere were in their zenith. Car- nation breeding was little practiced in those days. The writer first became directly interested in plant breeding some nine years ago, when as horti- culturist at the Vermont Station, car- nation breeding was indulged in partly as a diversion and partly to study some problems connected with the work of breeding. The results of some of these studies were presented in the 20th annual report of the Vermont Ag- ricultural Experiment Station in 1908, under the caption of "Seasonal Influ- ence in Carnation Crossing Relative to Seed ; The conclusions ar- rived at 'from this investigation were that the early crosses, that is those made in October and November, seemed to give a considerably higher percentage of successes, a much larger number of seeds per capsule; a higher percentage of germination and appar- ently heavier seed. The probable rea- son for better results from the early crosses was assumed to be due to the greater vigor of the plants rather than to seasonal influence. T' In the winter of 1907-08 inv|stig;a- tions were undertaken looking tt^'^-i'As the corroboration or disproval of N6r/ ton's theory, expressed in December, 1904* with respect to the possibility of our commercial carnation being an un- fixed hybrid between a single and a true double. Carnation seedlings were classed into three grou
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