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ST. PAUL. 



The Picnic. 



tin Wednesday, Augusl 5, the florists 

 of the Saintly City held their annual 

 outing at Wildwood, White Hear Lake, 

 and prett;; nearly ever^ one belonging 

 to the craft, male and female, was 

 then and had the most hilarious time 

 on record. The committee, composed of 

 Messrs. <). Olson, Carl Vogt and C. A. 

 Hanson, worked hard to make it a suc- 

 cess, and the many races and contests 

 came off finely, with. mt s hitch or mis- 

 umli rstamling. The prizes were fair 

 donations from different firms con 

 elected with the business, directly and 

 indirectly, and were all accepted with 

 grace by t he w inners. The prizes and 

 the names are too numerous to mention 

 singly, so we will pass that. Of course 

 t lie pie e iting contest of t he senior flor- 

 ists furnished a lot of fun and laughter 

 Some of the more hairj faces looked 

 anything but nice. 



In the ;ii i. i ii more florists with 



their spousi s and fi Lends i and en 



joyed the different sports on tin i . 1 . ■ : i ! 

 picnic grounds. At 5 o 'clock a ride on 

 the steamer across the lake was taken 

 by all. i in the o1 her side of t hat beau- 

 tiful sheet of wal.r a halt was made at 

 Eamaley's pavilion, the machines were 

 i In I.., - B ei e w atered at the 

 ii. a i est ma a ad t he ladies \\ ere sen ed 

 with ice cream free by. J. Kamaley, the 

 well known Nestor florist, who is en- 

 titled to many thanks from the com 

 mittee. Attar this trip the day was fin- 

 ished with dancing and other amuse- 

 ments, and it was late, very late, when 

 il e last florist n ai lied home. I >u tie' 



whole, the affair was a success; anil it 

 was our first picnic single handed, that 

 is, without Minneapolis. 



C. Bussjaegee. 



GOLD MEDAL FERN. 



The following is an extract from the 

 report of the committe on plants, from 

 the Transactions of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society for ItHH.': 



By far the most important and re- 

 markable new plant that has been shown 

 before the society for many years was 

 placed on exhibition at the March show 

 by the F. E. Pierson Company, of far 

 rytown, X. Y.. ami was shown under 

 the name of Xephrolepis Piersoni. It 

 originated with them as a sport from 

 V eviltatn I Mistoniensis, anil is very 

 interesting botanically as well as of 

 greal value commercially. Instead of 

 the fronds being simply pinnate, as in 



il iginal form, the pinntE have lie 



come divided, making the fronds twice 

 pinnate. At the same time, the power 

 of indefinite extension of the tips of the 

 fronds, a characteristic peculiar to ue- 

 phrolepis, seems to have been communi- 

 cated to the pinna, thereby making the 

 fronds of great width ami beauty in a 

 well developed plant. The Pierson va- 

 riety was so remarkably distinct, and 

 at the same tin f so inudi commer- 

 cial value, that we considered the plant 

 worthy of the highest award offered by 

 the society; we therefore awarded it the 

 gold medal. 



\ln xv m mi. \\ is '| he C. C. Poll- 

 worth I'o. ha- | > 1 1 1 up three ionises Ihis 

 real ami will now add two more 23x256 



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