August 21, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



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over the new greenhouse and in sports 

 and games. 



James S. Snyder of Rhinebeck, won 

 the fat men's race and received an 

 umbrella. The other contests were as 

 follows: Boys' race, Herbert Kurth; 

 tree for all, George Skinkel; ladies' 

 race, Miss Belle Reilly; sack race, John 

 G. Young; broad jump, and hop, skip, 

 and jump, William Newport. A tive-I 

 inning baseball game was played late 

 in the evening between picked up 

 1 earns representing the retailers and 

 the growers. The game resulted in a 

 victory for the growers by a score of 

 6 to 5. Kurth and Butts acted as 

 battery for the retailers, and Newport 

 and Haggerty for the growers. J. H. 

 Snyder was the only one to make a 

 home run. a surprise to all as he is 

 the fattest member of the club. 



The outing was held this year two 

 weeks earlier than usual, because the 

 club is making extensive preparations 

 for its first flower show to be held in 

 the state armory in November. 



BIG PLANT BUSINESS OF HELLER 



BROS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 



DINGEE & CONARD CO. 



A deal was consummated this week 

 by wuich the live plant business of 

 Heller Bros, was transferred to the 

 Dingee & Conard Company of West 

 Grove, Pa. This does not include the 

 cut flower business, known as the 

 South Park Floral Company. 



The negotiations were made by Mr. 

 P. Joseph Lynch and several of his as- 

 sociates, who were here several days. 

 Mr. Lynch is the financial man and 

 general manager of the Dingee & Con- 

 ard Co., which is the largest mail order 

 rose growing concern in America. It 

 was our pleasure to meet Mr. Lynch, 

 and he impresses one as a very live 

 wire in any undertaking. 



The business would not have been 

 sold if Herbert Heller had lived, he 

 having had active charge of this de- 

 partment, but Myer Heller has too 

 many other interests to devote the 

 time to properly carry it on. The busi- 

 ness will remain here and be run un- 

 der the name of Heller Bros., the new 

 owners having purchased the entire 

 stock and good will of Heller Bros. 

 The glass covers an area of about forty 

 thousand square feet. 



It is the purpose of the new owners 

 to eventually make this the equal of 

 their mammoth place at West Grove. 

 Pa. Mr. Lynch will not move here but 

 will make frequent visits in addition 

 to having a competent manager.— New 

 Castle (Indiana) Times, Aug. 14th. 



SASSAFRAS OFFICINALE. 



(Laurus Sai>afr,!s, L.) 

 This tree, abundant in New England 

 woods, is, our London correspondent 

 states, rare in England and Middle 

 European countries. He sends the fol- 

 lowing interesting note which is 

 worthy of attention from nurserymen 

 and tree seed gatherers. 



"In the neighborhood of London, a 

 few examples may be found— a tree 30 

 feet in height having a crown of 20 

 feet in diameter, and of perfect 

 shape is growing at Cannizaro House, 

 on the border of Wimbledon Common. 

 At Guessen, in Germany, the tree when 

 voung is affected ofttimes by hard 

 irost. At the Botanical Garden at that 

 place specimens were killed to the 

 gi-ound level in the cold winter of 1879- 



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80, and the mala plant was killed out- 

 right, while the female made strong 

 growths from the stump, out of which, 

 a stem and crown, have developed into 

 an example 25 feet in height and of i 

 columnar form. 



"Sassafras officinale has been culti- 

 vated in Europe since the 16th century 

 as an extremely important medicinal 

 subject, and it is surprising that this 

 handsome foliage plant, on which 

 scarcely a leaf resembles another, 

 should not be more common in gar- 

 dens. The difliculty in propagating 

 must account for this; and root suck- 

 ers rarely occur even on large ti'ees, 

 (one is found on the Borromei Island 

 in Ma.ggiore Lake). Seeds with vegeta- 

 tive power, for the reason that the 

 species is dioecious, are also rare; and 

 American harvested seeds, as a rule 

 have lost their vitality. It is neces- 

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 they are ripe, enclosing them in pow- 

 dered charcoal or dry peat, in air tight 

 soldered tin boxes and despatch these 

 forthwith to their destination." P. M. 



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