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Commercially grown carnations: Studies in soil fertility control made to determine optimum fertilization for production of ornamentals
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California Agriculture 7(6):13-13.
Published June 01, 1953
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Abstract
Soil testing for fertility control in carnation production showed that large quantities of nitrogen and of potassium are removed from the soil—by plant absorption or through leaching—when cultural methods for bench grown carnations are typical of those in use in the San Francisco Bay Area.