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Excerpt from The Carnation Manual The Committee of the National Carnation and Picotee Society (southern Section) feel that no apology is needed for the issue of this little Manual upon the cultivation of the 'carnation, the improvement and development of which is the sole purpose of their incorporation. They are aware that other works of much authority and literary value have been published on the same subject, but they believe that in none has the general information required by the amateur been presented in so simple and useful a form as in the present work. In it will be found papers from some of the most successful growers of the day, detailing the methods pursued by them from the first impregnation of the seed-pod to the final staging of the owers upon the Exhibition tables. 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."