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Jessie L. Seal (1864-1946) was an American floriculturist, regarded as an authority on the culture of dahlias. She turned a hobby into a profitable business.

Jessie Livingstone Cobbledick was a California woman, a member of the Cobbledick family of San Francisco.

For a number of years, Seal grew dahlias with great success in the yard of her San Francisco home. Largely by chance, she exhibited some of her dahlias at the Panama Pacific Exposition, and that was the beginning of a demand for dahlia bulbs which she found it difficult to supply. At first, she began growing bulbs on a small plot of land near her home, and subsequently developed a business requiring many acres and a complete organization of assistants in the growing, handling and marketing of her product. She owns and manages a dahlia nursery farm which produced and shipped the dahlia tubers to practically every region where these flowers were cultivated and admired. Her dahlias were awarded scores of prizes. Associated as a partner in the business was Samuel Newsom, a son of the California architect, Samuel Newsom.

Seal's office was located at 607 Third Avenue, San Francisco. Her dahlia farm was situated in Napa County, California, where she also owned home.

She was one of the organizers and a prominent member of the Dahlia Society of California.

She married Alfred Blake Seal, who died August 13, 1913. for many years, he was engaged in the tuna canning business at San Pedro, California. the couple had two children, a daughter, Isabel Seal Stovel, and a son, Alfred Henry Seal.

References

1. ^ Hunt, Rockwell Dennis (1926). "MRS. GLADYS H. LENT-BARNDOLLAR". California and Californians. Vol. 5. Lewis Publishing Company. pp. 105–06. Retrieved 27 December 2024 – via HathiTrust. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

• 1864 births
• 1946 deaths
• Florists