. Commercial carnation culture; a practical guide to modern methods of growing the American carnation for market purposes. Carnations. CARNATION SUPPORTS 101 of the bench, was resorted to in most instances. The tie to this was first made by string, but later the safety lever clips were used in large numbers for this purpose. These three-ring supports for one plant each took up an enormous amount of room when packed between seasons. This was a serious objection. Many of them were damaged when not in use as they could not be packed flat. It was, therefore, no surprise that this type soon lost it
. Commercial carnation culture; a practical guide to modern methods of growing the American carnation for market purposes. Carnations. CARNATION SUPPORTS 101 of the bench, was resorted to in most instances. The tie to this was first made by string, but later the safety lever clips were used in large numbers for this purpose. These three-ring supports for one plant each took up an enormous amount of room when packed between seasons. This was a serious objection. Many of them were damaged when not in use as they could not be packed flat. It was, therefore, no surprise that this type soon lost its popularity. The next step was the de- sign of a three-ring support to accommodate two plants. This type is illustrated in Fig. 3. Florists everywhere welcomed this new invention and many of the better makes of this design are in use today. While they need almost as much room for storing as did the three-ring sup- ports for one plant, still they are a decided improvement over FIG- 4 previous designs, both in respect to rigidity and the time required to put them in place. Fig. 4 illustrates a single plant support with two or three rings, which was designed to supply the rigidity that the supports, such as shown in Fig. 2, lacked. While this support aff'orded much stiff'ness, it put three stakes in the bench for each plant. This was objectionable in caring for the plants. From a commercial side, this was expensive to manufacture because of the excessive amount of wire. From the user's side it was expensive because of the time. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dick, John Harrison, 1877- ed. New York, A. T. DeLaMare printing & publishing co. , ltd.
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