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the place where it had been cut down, and it must have been very large, 

 because it was a large trunk. 



The President — It was on the corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets, 

 and there is a seventeen-story building there now, and the two were not 

 compatible. That is why they did not get on together. 



Mr. Von Herf — The way is to select seed from the most northern 

 trees and push them on in that way. I think it can be so arranged in 

 New York as to get them in sheltered locations. I observed some 

 Magnolia grandiflora growing in Washington City. One would think 

 that as good a locality in which they would grow well as any place, but 

 they do not grow there as well as they do a little bit farther south. I 

 have in mind some trees opposite the White House. I saw them' twenty 

 years ago, and they appear to me now scarcely any larger than they did 

 then. Now, in a proper location, they would be much larger than they 

 were then. We can hardly expect to raise magnolias as fine as they 

 are in their home, but I think they could be grown by proper selection 

 in the manner I indicated. 



Mr. Siebrecht — I suppose it was nearly twenty years ago when a lady, 

 a customer of mine, offered me a thousand dollars if I would make a 

 magnolia grow in 54th Street in front of old St. Luke's Hospital, and I 

 declined the offer. Since then I have been practicing, like our president 

 here, and at last I have got some that high (indicating about 4 to 5 feet), 

 and those are from seed brought from Mount Vernon. Mr. Stuart, the 

 superintendent of the grounds at Mount Vernon, said, "If j-ou do not 

 make these grow north, then it cannot be done. These are the most 

 hardy we have." I have got them up to now, and I believe what my 

 friend says. I have tried in the same way with English holly and have 

 been fairly successful with the variegated and the laurel leaved, and also 

 the common one in England. I have also succeeded in acclimating aucuba. 

 It is doing very well. I have also acclimated the laurel and the big 

 leaved laurel. I have got them but they are not very big trees and they 

 are in sheltered locations, of course. I have succeeded in wintering over 

 the crepe myrtle, and although they killed down to the ground very 

 often, they are in flower now. Therefore I think we can, by trying, 

 acclimate those things. 



The President — I think that if I could get seedlings from trees that 

 were native in North Carolina four thousand feet above the level of the 

 sea, where the thermometer sometimes gets 25 degrees below zero, 

 Fahrenheit, we ought to have them here, and I have brought them from 

 four thousand feet above sea level, North Carolina, w'ith the expectation 

 of doing so. I have also had them from New Jersey and they did so well 

 that they not only thrived, but perfected their seed, so I get seedlings 

 from them and it would seem as though 4,000 elevation in North Carolina 

 ought to bring it to New York successfully. 



Mr. Von Herf— What place is that? 



