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HORTICULTUEE 



July 13, 1918 



The Ginger Jar* 



When you go to help launch a boat 

 always look out that you don't get 

 launched yourself. This was the 

 singular experience ot Samuel S. Pen- 

 nock at Waretown, June 22nd. After 

 the boat launching they had to send 

 another boat out to rescue him. 



Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pennock of 

 Jupiter, Pla., are here for their usual 

 summer sojourn among the friends in 

 Pennsylvania and nearby states. His 

 old side partner in Pennock Bros., 

 John Westcott, hopes he won't miss 

 him out in his social visits this year, 

 like he did last year. It doesn't need 

 an aeroplane to reach Ridge and Le- 

 high. Verb sap. 



The latest fashion note from gay 

 Paree, or wherever it is these dic- 

 tums originate, is that pajamas are 

 the proper apparel to go fishing in. 

 If you don't believe this, ask Robert 

 Craig. He is our authority for the 

 statement. But we have no author- 

 ity for quoting pajamas in the plural. 

 This may be one of the times when 

 they are singular. 



When you see an old bach that 

 stayed single until he was sixty or 

 so, and then got married, and then 

 after a couple of years blows into 

 town and has a special and particu- 

 lar grin on his face you know the 

 answer and you throw up the sponge 

 and ask is it a boy or a girl. Antoine 

 modestly admitted that in his case it's 

 a girl. From the way he says it — 

 must be some girl. 



We are now paying particular at- 

 tention to the old bachelors whose 

 families are away at the seashore and 

 mountain. The Y. M. C. A. and the 

 y. W. C. A. and the various philan- 

 thropic agencies too numerous to men- 



During Recess 



The Opening at Waretown 



The I'ommodore Raises the Flag 

 Fishing at Waretown 



tion are heartily with us. Some of the 

 older ones, like the commodore in the 

 seventy-eight class, may be a little 

 difficult to handle; but with a little 

 song and ice cream at old St. 

 Stephens, we hope to keep them off 

 Chestnut street from twelve to two, 

 where sails are scanty fore and aft, 

 top and low these days. Atlantic City 

 has nothing on Chestnut street when 

 it comes to a bare breeze. But with 

 the help of the Washington authori- 

 ties we feel secure we can handle 

 the situation. Selah. 



Gex>rge C. Watson. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Los Angeles, Cal. — The 



Germain 



Seed & Plant Co. has increased its 

 capital stock to $.300,000. 



Hudson, N. Y. — William Christians, 

 of Pittsfield, Mass., has taken over 

 the R. W. Allen greenhouse plant in 

 this city. He has taken a lease for 

 one year with the privilege ot pur- 

 chasing the establishment at the end 

 of that period. Mr. Christians is a 

 native of Holland and has also worked 

 in Scotland and England. He has 

 been in this country for six years, 

 working at Pittsfield and Lenox, at 

 the latter place being gardener on 

 some of the beautiful estates there. 



John Weacott Baits L p 



Lenox, Mass. — Thomas Proctor, 

 since 1901 in charge of the green- 

 houses and gardens at Blantyre for 

 the late Robert W. Paterson, has com- 

 pleted his work at Blantyre. Mr. 

 Proctor is a prominant member ot the 

 Lenox horticultural society. In 1911 

 he began exhibiting chrysanthemums 

 and for several years won many 

 awards in Lenox, New York and Chi- 

 cago. Later he bred orchids, being 

 among the pioneer growers to bring 

 out American seedling orchids. The 

 orchids have been sold. 



Some of the interesting events at the R. & J. Farquhars' employees' Outing 



Throwing the Ball 



On the Slide 



The Egg Kace 



