. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. ,8o The American Florist. Feb. The Carnation Belt. A recent trip through what is generally recognized as the carnation belt of Penn- sylvania revealed some interesting and important features of that branch of horticultural industry. The so-called belt is embraced in a circle of about ten miles in diameter, of which Kennett ma3' be regarded as the center, with Avondale on one side and Unionville on the other tak- ing opoosite outside positions. Of course I do not pretend to be exact in the loca- tion of the points
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. ,8o The American Florist. Feb. The Carnation Belt. A recent trip through what is generally recognized as the carnation belt of Penn- sylvania revealed some interesting and important features of that branch of horticultural industry. The so-called belt is embraced in a circle of about ten miles in diameter, of which Kennett ma3' be regarded as the center, with Avondale on one side and Unionville on the other tak- ing opoosite outside positions. Of course I do not pretend to be exact in the loca- tion of the points named, or their dis- tances apart, but they are sufficiently so for the purposes of this sketch. And tliev are also sufficiently accin-ate to explode the belt theory as a myth, for I am thor- oughly satisfied that there is nothing in the atmosphere of that particular section to exert a favorable influence over the carnation any more than in a thousand other similar sections in that and adjoin- ing counties in Pennsylvania and other states; neither is there anything peculiar about the soil so far as I am able to detect, in that particular it is very sim- ilar in appearance to that surrounding Philadelphia and other parts of the state, with which I was familiar many j-ears ago—a rather light calcareous soil con- taining a slight admixture of micacious matter, being the predominant features of a large portion of that section of the state. With the above facts in view I have no hesitation in declaring the car- nation belt a misnomer. "But," sa3' the readers of the Flokist, "you must admit that the carnation is quite largely ;ind successfully grown in that section, pray how do 3'ou account for that?" Well, I account for the suc- cessful carnation culture in that partic- ular section in this way: The industry is in the hands of young, energetic and per- severing men, who take a pride in and devote their whole time and energies to their business. This is the gi-a
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