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Eda Prass. — Delicate salmon ; late, medium height. 



George W. Childs. — Deep velvety cvimsou ; large, well-formed 

 flowers of great substance ; very fine. 



George HrnvTcins. — Yellow; Anemone. 



Golden i7a?r.— Novelty, 1894, E. A. Wood. 



lora. — Shell pink; early, medium height. 



Ivory. — Pure white; Chinese incurved, flowers large, full, and 

 fine, round shape. 



Louis Boehmer. — '"The pink Ostrich Plume." A beautiful 

 delicate silvery pink; a variety of great merit, the flowers are 

 large, and it is a very free-blooming variety. 



Louis BceJimer, ^^ White." — Pure white; very free blooming. 

 A sport from Louis Bo-hmer. 



Miss Minnie Wanamaker . — White; late, medium height. 



Mrs. E. B. Freeman. — Yellow; ostrich; sport from Louis 

 Boehmer. 



Portia. — Pink; medium early, moderate height. 



Primula. — Yellow ; seedling from Empress of Japan. 



Summit. — Incurved Chinese; novelty of 1893. 



Tuxedo. — Deep orange ; tall, late. 



Vermd Fall. — Feathery white ; early, dw^arf . 



Walter Hunneivell. — Orange; medium height, mid-season. 



White Cap. — White; dwarf; late; Incurved Japanese. 



W. H. Lincoln. — Beautiful soft yellow; large, perfect form; 

 vigorous grower ; Japanese. 



Mr. Hatfield remarks that of these varieties he will probably 

 discard several, and grow others which he considers better 

 adapted to his purposes. He states as his reasons that C. B. 

 Whitnall is too late ; Tuxedo is too tall and late ; Eda Prass is 

 too late and scarcely bright enough pink, when there are better; 

 Vernal Fall is too delicate to rely upon ; Miss Minnie Wanamaker. 

 is too late and takes too long to open, being too double. 



As to methods of culture, Mr. Hatfield says there is nothing 

 new, unless it may be that less stimulants were used than last 

 year, and with improved results, — better plants, better and 

 brighter ])looms, and cleaner and better foliage. He thinks the 

 probability is, that growers are very liable to be too liberal with 

 stinuilants. Close attention is the watchword. 



Tlie small house in wliich were growing a good number of plants 



