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engelmann's STRAIN 



In regard to Engelmann's strain he recorded in the 

 same year (1907) and volume as follows: " It is nearly 

 four years since some plants of Captain of the Blues sported 

 with me and I have Winter-flowering varieties of quite 

 distinct habit. Ordinarily, stocks sown in Autumn will 

 not bloom under glass until the following April, but the 

 newcomers commence to bloom from six to ten weeks after 

 seed sowing, and continue to form branches and produce 

 flowers all through the Winter. I have now Winter- 

 flowering representatives of such varieties as Dorothy 

 Eckford, Lady Grizel Hamilton and Miss Willmott, as 

 well as a number of crosses between these, and the ordinary 

 type and Mont Blanc, so that almost all Sweet Pea colors 

 are represented. In 1906 I sowed my Winter-flowering 

 varieties at the end of August and beginning of September, 

 and the resulting plants commenced to flower in October 

 and were splendidly in bloom at the end of November and 

 early in December, and they should continue to flower 

 until the ordinary Sweet Peas come into flower." 



Engelmann ceased to grow his strain for the London 

 market as he found there was insufficient sun during the 

 Winter in England to enable him to produce good market- 

 able flowers from November-March, and he can get the 

 ordinary type of Spencer varieties in bloom from April, 

 so that there is no great advantage in growing the Winter- 

 flowering sorts. However, he is again beginning to work 

 up a stock in his new Riviera branch, as there the plants, 

 flower well in the open, as well as under .glass, and will no> 

 doubt have a great future in that part of France. 



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