“…The effects of daylength on flowering in carnations have been extensively studied for the last twenty years in all the major carnation growing countries : the United Kingdom (Harris & Ashford, 1966 ;Powell, 1979 ;Bunt & Powell, 1983), The Netherlands (Abou Dahab, 1971, Klapwijk, 1987, Denmark (Jensen & Bjerggaard, 1970), the USA (Cheng & Langhans, 1971 ;Heins & Wilkins, 1979 ;Healy & Wilkins, 1983), Germany GDR (Neubert & Kunert, 1977a, 1977b, 1978, and later also in Israel (Kadman-Zahavi & Ephrat, 1982) and Japan (Yonamura et al ., 1981) .…”