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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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France, Germany and Holland that in1.597 Gerard wrote that to describe eachnew variety of Carnation were to rollSisyphus stone or number the sands. The Carnations of to-day originatedabout 1840, as a distinct race. Specialattention was given in Europe to the elab-oration of the plants by M. Dalmais andM. Schmitt, and the varieties created bythem were imported to America in 1868.Bench cultivation was started in theUnited States in 1875 and became sopopular that in 1892 the specialist orCarnationalist first became known.At that time there were about five hun-dred distinct varieties, all of Americanorigin. The Carnation is a native of Centraland Southern Europe. Since its intro-duction into England it is said to haveescaped cultivation and to have becomefixed in several localities. In its cultiva-tion three general classes have been es-tablished by English specialists. Theselfs are plants whose flowers have auniform color. The flakes possess a pureground of white or yellow, flaked or 216
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II 533 CARNATIONS. (Dianthus caryophyllus). COPYRIGHT 1902, BY *. W. MUMFORD, CHlCAbO. striped with one color, the stripes run-ning longitudinally through the petals.The bizarres are such as have a pureground, marked as in the flakes, but withtwo or three colors; this form possessesthe most fragrance^ especially when thereis a frequent recurrence of the stripes.Lastly there are the picotees, having apure ground, each petal being borderedwith a band of color. This last form in-cludes many of the rarest varieties andthe yellow picotee is famous in severalroyal establishments. It is a peculiar fact that rain will in-jure the colors of the more delicate va-rieties, and the florist must shield theopening flowers from direct sunlight ifhe would obtain the best results. In the perfect flower the pod and calyxshould be long, the flower circular, not less than three inches in diameter, risinggradually towards the center, so as toform a sort of crown. The outer petalsshould be large and few in

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