Author: Walter Page Wright

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 9781330422229

Excerpt from Pictorial Practical Carnation Growing: A Concise Guide, Dealing With Garden, Show, Tree Malmaison, American, White Ground, Yellow Ground, and Fancy Canations and Picotees With some apprehension of a cudgelling for my audacity from the specialists, I wrote, a few years ago, a little book about Roses. As much to my relief as my pleasure, it was received with equal favour by the experts and by the amateurs. In these happy circumstances I have ventured to take up the sister flower, the Carnation, and to deal with it on the same plain, pictorial, practical lines. My qualifications for the task are not those of the successful exhibitor - the most I can claim is to have grown a small collection for several years in my Kentish garden; to have been in touch with the specialists (and particularly with the all-important work of Mr. Martin R. Smith) during that time; to have learned much of the wants and troubles of amateurs, and to have had some little experience in putting gardening books together. Perhaps these things will compensate for the absence of cups and medals. I hope so. There is no Carnation book in existence in the least like this one. An endeavour has been made in it to practically illustrate every important cultural item in every class of Carnations and Picotees worth growing. The book is not meant for ornament, but for use. I trust its merits may be measured by what it tries to do, and not by what it tries to leave undone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.