. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i8g2. The American Florist. 507. NEW WHITE CARNATION GOVERNOR RUSSELL. tardy in coming into flower, but the color, habit and general character of the plant is so good that we can well afford to wait a short time for the flowers, especially as they come to stay when flowering fairly commences. Louise Porsch: For a light, delicately tinted yellow, this is hard to beat. The yellow is light, with stripes of delicate pink and an occasional streak of pure white. The plant will readily grow three feet high, and when load
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i8g2. The American Florist. 507. NEW WHITE CARNATION GOVERNOR RUSSELL. tardy in coming into flower, but the color, habit and general character of the plant is so good that we can well afford to wait a short time for the flowers, especially as they come to stay when flowering fairly commences. Louise Porsch: For a light, delicately tinted yellow, this is hard to beat. The yellow is light, with stripes of delicate pink and an occasional streak of pure white. The plant will readily grow three feet high, and when loaded with its large richly marked flowers, forms an ob- ject not soon forgotten. With Louise Porsch my list ends. Al- though forming but a small part of my collection, I think these will serve to illus- trate the several shades of color mostly cultivated at this time, except scarlet, a eolpr which is not represented. B^ the way, we need a good solid scarlet, that will begin to flower in October, and that will continue flowering to the end of the following summer as does Portia. Portia is too small to meet present requirements, and the stem is also too weak. Garfield is too late incoming into flower, but good when it does come, and pretty much the same in a general way may be said of others. It seems to me that a grand opening presents itself for a scarlet of the right stamp, and we ought not to be obliged to wait long, at the present advanced stage of carnation culture. H. E. Chittv. Paterson, Dec. 19, '92. [The box of flowers arrived several days in advance of the above communi- cation, and the following comments were written shortly after the flowers reached us not knowing that a communication was on the way. Ed.] A large box of carnations, including nineteen well known varieties, was re- cently received from H. E. Chitty, Pater- son, N. J. They may be regarded as typi- cal commercial blooms, and a comparison of their various merits and demerits is of interest. But two yellows
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