. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. CRATAEGUS LANEYI. year it was put on the market. Mr. Hallock says that the American, varie- ties raised at Queens appear to have had great staying qualities, and he con- siders U. S. Grant the best variety ever raised. Lilium Opal, which Mr. Hal- lock considers the best variety of L. speciosum, was raised at Queens from one bulb, and when sold to Childs there were several thousands of bulbs in the different sizes. Mr. Hallock has a very keen knowledge of ornamental plants in general, but his fund of information re
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. CRATAEGUS LANEYI. year it was put on the market. Mr. Hallock says that the American, varie- ties raised at Queens appear to have had great staying qualities, and he con- siders U. S. Grant the best variety ever raised. Lilium Opal, which Mr. Hal- lock considers the best variety of L. speciosum, was raised at Queens from one bulb, and when sold to Childs there were several thousands of bulbs in the different sizes. Mr. Hallock has a very keen knowledge of ornamental plants in general, but his fund of information regarding bulbous plants is unusually large and varied, and it is frequently drawn upon by experts all over the world. MARKET GARDENS. THE Florida early vegetable crop was practically ruined by the severe frost of January 25. The orange crop has also suffered very severely. The total loss is estimated at about $2,000,000. The temperature came nearly getting as low as in 1894, the time of the big freeze. At Jacksonville the thermom- eter registered 16° above zero, which was within 2° of the record low tem- perature of 1894. E. V. HALLOCK. E. V. Hallock was born in Dutchess county, New York, fifty-four years ago. The first nineteen years of his life was spent with his parents and he was edu- cated in Brooklyn and New York. In 1869 he went to California and was connected with the Southern Pacific railroad for three years. Eeturning east, he was associated with his father, V. H. Hallock, and succeeded to the business of C. L. Allen, who had bought a farm at Queens some years previous. For many of the pleasant recollections and associations of his early life he is indebted to his love of horticulture and agriculture and to his father, who was a cultivator of rare ability and often entertained the most prominent horticulturists. In the fifties they grew the Antwerp raspberry, the Lawton blackberry and the Isabella grape for the New York market. In 1864 the original bulb farm at Queen
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