. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. EMPLOYES AND PELARGONIUMS AT SIEVERS & BOLAND'S, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. and bursting their calyxes. Of the latest varieties originated by this firm and not yet disseminated the Hannah Hobart and A. B. Spreckles stand out preeminently in the lead. Cut blooms of the Hannah Hobart are ahead of any carnation in the San Francisco market, having never been wholesaled for less than $1 per dozen. It is of a deep shade of pink with well built up center from three and a half to four inches and occasionally four and a half
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. EMPLOYES AND PELARGONIUMS AT SIEVERS & BOLAND'S, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. and bursting their calyxes. Of the latest varieties originated by this firm and not yet disseminated the Hannah Hobart and A. B. Spreckles stand out preeminently in the lead. Cut blooms of the Hannah Hobart are ahead of any carnation in the San Francisco market, having never been wholesaled for less than $1 per dozen. It is of a deep shade of pink with well built up center from three and a half to four inches and occasionally four and a half inches in diameter. The habit of the plant is all that could be desired. It is a vigorous, strong grower, remarkably free from disease and an excellent bloomer. Next in merit comes the A. B. Spreckles, a scarlet of the highest order. Its flowers, three to three and a half inches in diameter, finely fringed and very full, are borne on long wiry stems which come long from the commencement of flowering. This is the most fragrant carnation I have ever seen. The habit and productiveness are also excellent. But it is not alone in carnations that efforts have been rewarded with success. In hybridizing tuberous begonias and pelargoniums the most gratifying results have been obtained to which a number of varieties of superior merit can testify. The greenhouses, twenty in number and containing nearly 60,000 square feet of glass, are heated by three sectional hot water boilers, coal being used as fuel in preference to oil, which was recently tried. Several houses are devoted to palms and ferns, one large house to orchids of the best commercial varieties. Poinsettias, azaleas, bulbs, etc., are grown in con- siderable quantities in their season. This establishment is in charge of Thos. E. Hooper, to whose able management a large share of the firm's present pros- perity is due. ROMNEYA. Holiday Impressions. [A. paper by AVm. .T. Stewart, of Boston, Mass., read before the Chicago Florists'Clu
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