July 25, 190S 



HORTICULTURE 



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of Monday, August 17. George H. 

 Cooke is vice-president for District 

 of Columbia and F. H. Kramer is pres- 

 ident of the local club. 



"BUFFALO DAY." 



The S. A. F. and Canadian florists 

 will be entertained by the Buffalo 

 Florists' Club on Friday. August 21. 

 In the morning bowling and shooting 

 will be in order and. those who do not 

 wish lo take part will be entertained 

 by a ride around Grand Island where 

 a ball game will be played between 

 "All America" and a Buffalo team. The 

 committee in charge are working hard 

 to make, this one of the most pleasant 

 nips that their brother florists have 

 bad in some time. 



TRADE EXHIBITION SPACE. 



Since my last report on the trade 

 exhibition, the following have sent in 

 contracts for the amount of space set 

 opposite. 



sq. ft. sq. ft. 



Garford Motor .1. A. Petersen... 75 



C&r Co 150 Wilson & Hoyt.. 48 



J. H. McFarland. 32 Lemuel Hall 75 



Robert Craig 250 .Julius Roeurs. . . .250 



Lord & Buruham. 252 The Advance Co. 48 

 Daniel B. Long.. 42 I. L. Pillsbury . . . 19 

 Florists' Review. .100 The Larkin Co... 27 



Lager & Hun-ell. 100 C. S. Y eagle 350 



A. 1,. Randal Co.. 60 Benj. Hammond.. 100 



This with the space already report- 

 ed makes a total of 7463 sq. ft. sold 

 to date. 



A goodly amount of space is still 

 available but especially those who 

 wish large blocks should hurry or 

 they may get left on good locations. 



Arrangements have been made with 

 a responsible carting company at the 

 Falls who will take care of all freight 

 sent to the trade exhibition, so that 

 there will be no unnecessary running 

 to and fro and worrying about exhib- 

 its being mislaid and not delivered on 

 time. 



All those who desire to stop at the 

 Cataract House where the exhibition 

 will be held, or the International, 

 next door, should correspond with Mr. 

 H. Q. Isaacs, International Hotel, Ni- 

 agara Falls, N. Y., who will act as 

 hotel committee and gladly answer all- 

 questions that may be asked in regard 

 to hotel accommodations. 



Yours very truly, 

 CHAS. H. KEITSCH, Supt. 



810 Main St., Buffalo. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



W. X. Rudd has been prevailed upon 

 to accept the position of manager of 

 the National Flower Show. The selec- 

 tion of a manager was left by the 

 S. A. F. executive committee to the 

 committee on local management of 

 which J. C. Vaughan is chairman, with 

 the recommendation that the services 

 of .Mr. Rudd be obtained if possible. 

 Mr. Vaughan has called a meeting of 

 his committee for Saturday afternoon, 

 July 2r.. when with Manager Rudd the 

 committee will take up details of show 

 arrangements. 



Chairman W. F. Kasting, of the com- 

 mittee of fifty, will call a meeting of 

 the committee at Niagara Falls during 

 the convention of the Society of Amer- 

 ican Florists. The meeting will prob- 

 ably be held on Thursday after the 

 discussion of the National Flower 

 Show which is provided for in the 

 convention program. 



J. H. BURDETT, Sec'y. 



During Recess 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB'S AN- 

 NUAL PICNIC. 



The fifteenth annual picnic of this 

 club took place on July 15 at beautiful 

 Normandy Grove, a most ideal spot for 

 the occasion. This is one of the days 

 on which for the past fifteen years the 

 f.orists come out for a day's sport and 

 recreation and they surely had it this 

 year. The weather was just right and 

 the three hundred present had a good 

 time. 



The most exciting events of the day 

 were the baseball game between the 

 wholesale and retail teams and the 

 bowling contests. During the ball 

 game great excitement prevailed. The 

 large crowd was with the retailers all 

 through and the umpires, Henry Os- 

 tertag and Fred Ammann, had a hard 

 time. Only five innings were played 

 and the wholesalers won by a score of 

 9 to S. 



Others events were as follows: 



100 yd. dash, men: Aug. Hartmnn, win- 

 ner; W. C. Smitb, donor of prize. 



100 yd. dash, boys: Eddie O'Rourke; 

 winner; H. Berning, donor. 



Egg and spoon rsce, married ladies: Mrs. 

 H. Riessen, winner; St. Louis Seed Co.. 

 donor. 



Hop, step and jump: Fred Alves, win- 

 ner; C. A. Kuehn, donor. 



50 yd. dash, young ladles: Martha Win- 

 ter, « inner; II. Berning, d >r. 



50 yd dash, boys: C. Bentzen, winner; 

 C. A. Kuehn, donor. 



220 yd. run, young men: Aug. Hartman, 

 winner: H. C. Young, donor. 

 . Potato race: Ed. Fitzgerald and Miss 

 Winter, winners; W. C. Smith and Geo. 

 Aagermuller, donors. 



Ladies' bowling: 1st. Mrs. Theo. Miller, 

 winner; A, Siegel, donor. 2d, Mrs. C. Beyer, 

 winner; Mrs. c. Sehoenle, donor. 3d, Mrs. 

 E. W. Guy. winner; Pachmann, donor. 



In the gentlemen's bowling Charles 

 Kuehn came in first with 195, Theo. 

 Miller second with 185 and Carl Beyer 

 third with ISO. The booby prize was 

 won by Frank Vennemann, his score 

 being 26. 



The rest of the evening was much 

 enjoyed in dancing and listening to 

 the good music. At this point Chair- 

 man Sehoenle announced that the sec- 

 ond event on the program had not 

 taken place and a handsome paraso, 

 would be given to the best lady waltzer 

 and filty couples started in for the 

 prize. The winner was Miss Minnie 

 3eyers, her partner being Edward Ger- 

 lach. The younger element stayed un- 

 • til nearly midnight. 



BUFFALO FLORISTS' CLUB. 

 The annual outing of the Buffalo 

 Florists' Club will take place at Bedell 

 House (Grand Island), on Wednesday, 

 July 29th. Boat will leave dock at 2.30 

 p. m. The committee in charge is 

 making every effort to have this year's 

 outing go on record as being one of 

 the best attended and best managed 

 affairs ever held. As usual, an excit- 

 ing ball game will be on the list, the 

 East Side vs. West Side teams, and such 

 other sports as fat men's race, tug-of- 

 war, motor cycle races and many other 



interesting events, which will be fol- 

 lowed by dinner and dancing in the 

 evening. Every member, together 

 with their families and sweethearts 

 are assured one grand time which they 

 cannot afford to miss. Remember the 

 date, July 29th. E. C. BRUCKFR. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB PICNIC. 

 The Chicago Florists' Club had an 

 ideal day for its picnic at Manilla 

 Park, Morton Grove, July 19. The at- 

 tendance was not so large as formerly. 

 A neat program of the games, etc., was 

 presented at the entrance and most of 

 the performances came off as sched- 

 uled. The prizes were beautiful and 

 many of them costly. A pleasant fea- 

 ture was the trip through the exten- 

 sive greenhouses of Poehlmann Bros. 

 This place is a model of neatness and 

 well up-to-date. Mrs. Aug. Poehlmann 

 hospitably opened her beautiful home 

 to the ladies. 



The annual picnic of the Indian- 

 apolis Florist Club was held July 23. 



Niessen 23, Burton 5, was the base- 

 ball score for the return game July 

 19th at Wyndmoor, Pa. The Niessens 

 were the hosts on this occasion, and 

 turned the tables on their opponents 

 by superior allig-nment and strategy. 



A clam bake of unprecedented mag- 

 nificence is under consideration by the 

 New York flower and plant growers, 

 to take place at a popular Sound resort 

 in the near future. A. L. Miller is per- 

 fecting the plans. 



At last New York is beginning to 

 emerge from the obscurity of a third- 

 rate bowling community and a line of 

 alley artists is being brought forward 

 to the firing line that will take the 

 starch out of all past winners. If 

 they can make the same showing at 

 Niagara that they are doing at Thum's 

 Alleys there will be no lack of excite- 

 ment. Last week averages were made 

 in four practice games as follows: 

 Chadwick, 190; Donaldson, 183; Irwin, 

 157. 



The outing of the Greek florists at 

 Witzel's Point Grove. New York, on 

 July 16, was an unqualified success in 

 evei y sense. Five hundred tickets were 

 sold for the occasion and there were 

 nearly four hundred people in attend- 

 ance. The proceedings included two din- 

 ners. Greek and American and various 

 other Kinds of dancing, games and 

 peei hes in English by Geo. D. Nicholas 

 and others There were no prizes but 

 the athletic sports were just as good as 

 though there had been, especially throw- 

 ing the discus, running and jumping. A 

 baseball game between the Greeks and 

 Americans was won by the latter. 



Corfu, N. Y., July 20, 1908. 

 HORTICULTURE Publishing Co., 

 Boston. 

 Dear Sir:— Your paper brought even 

 more answers this year and I hope 

 you will draw a still larger trade for 

 me next year. I even received an 

 answer from Havana, Cuba. 

 Yours truly, 



W. EHMANN. 



