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From “ T/ie Florists' ExchangeOctober 5th, 1895, 
I HE liE are but few seed firms in existence that can show si 
as that of Peter Henderson & Co. It is a great institution. 
1 great numbers of people are employed, . . . the gen 
least idea of the immensity of the business transacted. . 
The house of Peter Henderson & Co. has long since cstab 
quality sind purity of the large quantities of seeds handled by it, 
its working in detail would be of benefit and interest to readers 
was sought and obtained. 
The Hackensack Trial Grounds, supposed n 
thing alrea< 
A farm of some hundred acres. . . . The publ: 
The main object of the trial grounds is to test rather reputation 
than to grow seed crops, which have been grown in pocket and 
bulk by farmers throughout the United States, Canada party offer 
and different parts of the world. The deliveries from thing or se 
these sources are large, and coming from such varied in honest 
directions, it is of vital importance to the house to have novelty or i 
some knowledge of these crops with regard to purity Enthusiast* 
aud germinating power. Each delivery is tapped upon the mini bet 
arrival, and these samples go to Hackensack to be are chosen, 
grown and tried under severe tests—no nursing, no Returnini 
coddling, no high feeding, but a real out-and-out test which have 
upon a soil that is the best possible one for such a over for th 
purpose, viz., sandy loam. No irrigation or water is that those 
given, so that with our dry hot summer the test is on on a larg 
crucial. Those tests that approach anywhere near a in this and 
standard of perfection can hardly be anything but able to tel 
satisfactory elsewhere, and thus the firm is largely must watcl 
protected by this knowledge. “selection.’ 
Then, again, there is the eternal craze for novelties experts vis 
to be catered for, which is part and parcel of a seeds- what is not 
man’s life. He must be abreast of the times, and should gree selecti 
seek to be first in the field with genuine introductions. foreign to 1 
Hero then comes the value of such a farm—a safety- of the utim 
valve, as it were, to protect both the seedsman and the as cabbages 
buying public. All new things are tried, their merits and also in 
properly recorded, and good or bad points carefully Hackensack 
noted. More than that, comparisons with existing definite con 
novelties are possible; and more olten than not the expert kno\ 
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