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June 9, 1906 



TOLEDO PREPARES FOR THE 

 CONVENTION. 



The latter part of this month will 

 see the seedsmen assembled here in 

 convention and Toledo will try her 

 very best to make this convention one 

 which the visitors will not so easily 

 forget. Toledo has been gaining in 

 favor as a convention city very much 

 of late years; she offers a good many 

 attractions and the beautiful and pic- 

 turesque Maumee river as well as Lake 

 Erie help much to make her a popu- 

 lar spot. 



A committee has formed itselt 

 among the local seedsmen for the en- 

 tertainment of the visitors, and they 

 will put forth every effort to make it 

 pleasant for all. This committee is 

 composed of Messrs. Henry Philipps. 

 Wm. T. Philipps, Chas. Burge and 

 Rad. Burge of the F. W. Flower Co.. 

 and W. H. Marshouse, and they have 

 great plans. A moonlight trip for 

 several hours will follow the first 

 day's bnsy session and ail members 

 are expected to take part in it with 

 their ladies. This excursion will be 

 on Lake Erie in one of the big lake 

 steamers and will just last long- 

 enough so as not to tire the people 

 out. The entertainment planned 

 for the second day will take the vis- 

 itors in comfortable trolley cars ten 

 miles up the river on one side and 

 back again on the other that they may 

 see what beautiful surroundings 

 Toledo has. This Maumee river is 

 very wide in some places and numer- 

 able islands enhance its beauty. The 

 third day's entertainment will be a 

 banquet worth attending, even by 

 those who are used to such affairs; the 

 committee has set its heart on making 

 this a success from all points and thus 

 to wind up the convention in a fitting 

 way. 



As first-class hotels may be recom- 

 mended the Boody House, St. Charles, 

 St. Clair, Jefferson, Wayne and De- 

 veaux, and should anyone wish fur- 

 ther information he may address any 

 of the gentlemen of the committee. 



A PHILADELPHIA SEEDSMAN. 



There was a planked shad dinner 

 given at a boat club near Philadelphia 

 recently. Each guest had his picture 





done in water colors on the menu. 

 As the artist had never seen any of the 

 ;-aid' guests he had to draw on his 

 imagination. One of the guests was a 

 Philadelphia seedsman. The accom- 

 panying picture is not very nattering, 

 but the fact that the seeds are sprung 

 6 feet high and in bloom by the time 

 the hind leg of the sower gets out of 

 the way makes amends, and illustrates 

 forcibly that Burpee's are not the only 

 seeds that grow and grow quick. We 

 refrain from giving the Ismail's 



name, but can assure our readers that 

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