at that time but 1 did see about twenty huge moving vans 
in addition to the firm’s own auto equipment being loaded 
for rapid delivery and I could not fail to notice the pains¬ 
taking effort required in the selecting and wrapping of these 
plants—truly a monumental task in itself. 
“I learned, too, that the firm’s vast collection of annuals 
and perennials is largely sold to the small home owner, 
although the Dauernheim organization has been responsible 
for plantings of this material on a large scale on some of 
the most famous private estates on Long Island. 
“As I write this I see in my mind’s eye an area of 
about twenty-five acres devoted to the production of culti¬ 
vated sod, truly forming a sea of green grass of the finest 
texture. One needs not to be an expert to realize the care 
that must go into the preparation of the soil and the selec¬ 
tion of special grass seeds to produce such fine sod, so much 
in demand by private estates and also small home owners. 
Further I was given to understand that much of this sod had 
been used in beautifying the famous Greenwood Cemetery 
and further discovered the Dauernheim sod had been used 
almost exclusively on the roofs of Rockefeller Center. 
“Looking around I noticed (as who hasn’t) the huge 
smoke stack bearing the Dauernheim name and was told 
