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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Reichtmann has taken charge of the large 
establishment at Satsunia. 
I verified miy own statement made last 
year, and find that camphor can be grown 
more than successfully. The experiment 
as far as it has gone, is perfectly satis¬ 
factory. I have written and advised peo¬ 
ple to go into this, and a great many have 
said that there could not be anything in 
it, because if it was as good as I said, I 
would want to keep it all to myself. The 
sample just displayed was made from 
trees that I planted myself and had puri¬ 
fied in Washington, and is of a miost 
satisfactory nature. I can only say to 
any of my friends who- are interested in 
camphor—I fancy the best thing they can 
do is to plant it. 
Mr. Sheppard—What degree of cold 
will a camphor tree stand? 
Member—^In Marion county, I have 
not seen one that showed the slightest de¬ 
gree of being injured by the cold. 
Mr. Hart—Does the variety have any¬ 
thing to do with its power to withstand 
the cold? 
Dr. Walker—I think the condition of 
the tree at the time the frost comes has 
more to do wi'th it than anything else. 
The leaves will stand a considerable 
amount of cold and when they fall, retain 
a considerable portion of their camphor. 
Fromi the very small amount of opportu¬ 
nity we have had, we discovered that the 
camphor makes its growth as a rule pret¬ 
ty regularly. I have noticed a few that 
have made a very irregular growth. A 
peculiar advantage is that they will stand 
more cold than an average orange tree, 
and when cut down you can get your 
camphor from- the dead wood. 
