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HOETICULTUEE 



June 28, 1913 



DURING RECESS. 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia Annual 

 Picnic. 



This event took place at Washing- 

 ton Park on the 19th inst., and was 

 a great success. Over 200 members 

 and their friends took part. The wom- 

 en and children accompanied, and 

 gave the finishing touch to the friend- 

 ly gathering. Occasions like these 

 are great cementers of old friendship 

 and great promoters of new, and when 

 well conducted (as this one was) 

 prove good mediums— not only tor an 

 innocent day's frolic— but for the in- 

 terchange of experiences and precious 

 new ideas of inestimable value for the 

 future. 



After an hour's sight-seeing sail up 

 and down the river the boat landed 

 at Washington Park on the Delaware 

 about 3 P. M. For three hours sports 

 and pastimes were indulged in in the 

 Athletic Field attached to the park, 

 and at 6.30 P. M. dinner was served in 

 the main pavilion. At 9 P. M. the 

 party took the boat for Philadelphia- 

 tired but happy! 



Among the interesting features of 

 the sports was the Base Ball Game. 



This was a beautiful exhibition of 

 the finest two nines that could be 

 picked— one from the seed trade; one 

 from the florists trade. The contest 

 was the keenest amateur exhibition of 

 the national game we have ever seen. 

 The seedsmen put up a splendid fight, 

 against big odds. They had nothing 

 like the mass of available material 

 to pick from that the florists had. 

 The florists had wholesalers, retail- 

 ers, growers, commission men, and all 

 kinds of affiliations to pick from— 

 and for our own part we consider it 

 really astonishing that the team from 

 onlv three houses of the seed trade 

 (Michell, Burpee, and Dreer) should 

 have made such a good showing as 

 thev did. The score was six to three, 

 favor florists. The other pastimes re- 

 sulted as follows: 



Ladies' SO-vard Itace— 1st. Miss Heaccxk; 

 '>aa, Mrs. Robertson; 3ra, Miss Connor. 



Men's Sack Race— 1st, Francis Stokes; 

 •'nd Elmer Gaebring ; 3rd, Robert Sboek. 



Oirls' 75-vard Race— 1st, Ethel Robert- 

 sen; 2na, MlTdi-erl AdelUerger. 



Ladies' WbeelDarrow Race— 1st, Mrs. 

 Rust; 2nd, Mrs. Thilow : 3rd, Mrs. Miller. 



Ladies' Potato Race— 1st, Miss Heacock ; 

 •^nd, Mrs. Miller; 3rd, Mrs. E. Ascliman. 



Boys' 75-yard Race— 1st, Wm. Robert- 

 son "jr.; 2nd, Alfred Rust. „ , 



Fat Men's Race— 1st. Robert Shock; 2nd, 

 H. Asehman; Srd, T. Shober. 



Men's Wheelbarrow Race— 1st, James 

 Ileacock; 2ud, Paul Klingsporn; 3rd, Ed- 

 ward Reid. J , 1 . »„„„„ 



Special Race— 100-yard dash between 

 Edward Towill, Adolph Fareaw.ald, Fred 

 Michell, Sr. and Victor Groshens. for prize 

 consistina of a carving set, oEfered_ by 

 Edward Reid. of Banstead street, was won 

 by Ed. Towill. 



Secretary David Rust says it was 

 the cheapest afternoon's enjoyment he 

 has had in a long time. He paid six 

 for his three tickets; but Mrs. Rust 

 and the bov brought him back five 

 in prizes. JPresident Thilow was on 

 hand and was indefatigable in seeing 

 that everything went smoothly. 



G. C. W. 



The Dreer boys who sent three of 

 their baseball nine to the florists' club 

 picnic on the 19th inst— to help wm 

 a game— but were unable to stop the 

 terrific onslaught of the victors- 

 are congratulatiBg themselves on win- 



GEORGE H.GGOKE 



FLORIST 

 WASHINGTON D.C. 



ning a glorious victory two days later 

 against the strong Y. M. C. A. of Had- 

 donfleld, eight to seven. This is the 

 city team and is distinct from the 

 Riverton Dreers. 



THE WARETOWN OPENING. 



The time-honored opening and flag- 

 raising at Commodore John Westcott's 

 hospitable club house on Barnegat 

 Bay took place last Friday, June 20, 

 the festivities lasting three days. The 

 occasion was in all respects equal to 

 its predecessors of other years. Be- 

 sides the regular Philadelphia partici- 

 pants there were present from a dis- 

 tance W. F. Gude of Washington, D. 

 C; J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Col. W. W. 

 Castle and W. J. Stewart of Boston: 

 and John N. May, Jas. Dean, C. H. 

 Totty and W. F. Sheridan from New 

 York and vicinity. Letters of cor- 

 dial greeting were received from Pat- 

 rick O'Mara. J. Otto Thilow and 

 others and a telegram from Edwin 

 Lonsdale, Lompoc, Cal., was received 

 with unbounded enthusiasm. 



An interesting feature of the first 

 evening's symposium was the presen- 

 tation to Mr. Westcott of a Victrola 

 with a fine selection of records and 

 the visit was consequently enlivened 

 with enjoyable music by this wonder- 

 ful invention, in addition to the cus- 

 tomary contributions by Robert Craig 

 and other more or less talented vocal- 

 ists. The memorial trees given by the 

 late W. R. Smith and planted under 

 his direction were found to be thriv- 

 ing vigorously and promise to soon at- 

 tain to a very ornamental adjunct to 

 the outlook from the club house piaz- 

 za. 



Day and night were devoted by the 

 beloved old Commodore to the com- 

 fort and enjoyment of his guests, an 

 occupation which is his happiest pas- 

 time. Long may he live to dispense 

 the sweet sunshine of a disposition 

 which finds its best expression in gen- 

 erous deeds and kindly admonition. 



PERSONAL. 



Howard M. Earl, of Burpee's, sails 

 from New York on July 5th on the 

 Scandinavian line for Copenhagen. 



The Maryland Agricultural College 

 at its commencement last week con- 

 ferred an honorary degree on Richard 

 Vincent, Jr.. for his achievements in 



horticulture and floriculture. Horti- 

 cri.Ti-RE extends sincere felicitations. 



J. B. Wiese and daughter of Buffalo. 

 N. Y., leave on Wednesday for a trip 

 abroad and are not expected to return 

 until Oct. 1st. 



Phil Breitmeyer was a recent visitor 

 in Buffalo, having a decoration for the 

 wedding of his neice. Miss Buehl on 

 Richmond avenue. 



George Butler, gardener for Wells' 

 estate at Southbridge, Mass., will 

 leave July 1, to take charge of the 

 estate of George E. Barnard, Ipswich, 

 Mass. 



David Welch, of Welch Bros., sailed 

 on the Cunarder Laconia, from Bos- 

 ton, on Tuesday. June 24, for a short 

 recreation trip. He will return the 

 latter part of July. 



Edw. T. Dickinson, nurseryman, of 

 Chatenay, Seine, France, arrived in 

 New York on the La Touraine on June 

 16. It is three years since Mr. Dickin- 

 son last visited this country. 



Prof. H. J. Webber of the Dept. of 

 Plant Breeding at Cornell has ac- 

 cepted a position in the University 

 of California as Director of the Citrus 

 Experiment Station and Dean of the 

 Graduate School of Tropical Agricul- 

 ture, at Riverside, Cal. 



Boston visitors: A. E. Thatcher. 

 Bar Harbor, Me.; John Young, New 



y(u-k. 



Cincinnati visitors — A. Miller, repre- 

 sentating A. Henderson & Co., Chica- 

 go, and Ross Adgate, representing the 

 McCallum Co., Inc., Pittsburg. 



New York visitors; J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar and Col. W. W. Castle, Boston, 

 Mass.; Mr. Burns, New Canaan, Conn. 



St. Louis Visitors.— Carl Whitinger 

 of A. L. Randall Co., Chicago; Jno. 

 Buback of Schloss Bros., New York; 

 Sam Frund, Chicago; E. C. Pruner of 

 Poehlmann Bros., Chicago. 



WASHINGTON, 

 D.C. 



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