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[From Wilkes-Barre Time Leader, The Evening News, March 10, 1951] Miss Anne Dorrance, descendant of an early Wyoming Valley colonial family, and prominent in the educational, civic, and political life of the community, died this morning at 5 o'clock in the Wyoming Valley Hospital...on February 5 was brought to the hospital from her Huntsville home, "Wild Ledges". ...Miss Anne Dorrance, a daughter of Attormey Benjamin and Ruth Woodhull Strong Dorrance, was born June 26, 1873, on the Dorrance farm, which at one time comprised most of that part of the Kingston area, formerly known as Dorranceton. She was educated at the Wilkes-Barre Institute and Wyoming Seminary, and received a bachelor of arts degree in 1895 at Vassar College. Upon reurn home from college, she entered into horticulture with her father, who had been forced to relinquish his law practice due to failing eyesight. Together they formed one of the leading floral enterprises of the State, and developed a number of flowers, including the Sara Nesbitt Rose, the Killarney Rose, and others....The horticulture business was continued until 1918, when the first World War caused a cut in the domestic use of coal, necessitating the closing of the family greenhouses on the West Side. ...Among books she wrote were "Gardening in the Greenhouse", Fragrance In The Garden", and "Green Cargoes", the latter published in 1945. She also authored many magazine articles on the subject.