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U ii r 1 C U L T U E E 



July 27, 1918 



St. Louis Florist Club. 



The annual picnic of the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club took place July 18 at 

 Ramona Park. Many of the younger 

 , element were missed, having been 

 ' called to the colors but those remain- 

 ■ ing helped to make the picnic a suc- 

 cess. The wholesalers started shortly 

 after one o'clock and motored to the 

 picnic grounds. After partaking of a 

 little refreshments the trustees got 

 busy and distributed the novelties 

 among the children. Then came the 

 games which were ably managed by 

 W. A. Rowe, Frank A. Windier, as- 

 sisted by Al. Gumz and others. 



The ball came between the whole- 

 salers and retailers, resulted in the 

 score of 19 to 21 in' favor of the whole- 

 salers. Many of the retailers had to 

 borrow money to go home on, having 

 bet on the wrong side. The umpire 

 made himself scarce after the game. 

 The guessing contests was in charge 

 of C W. Wors as usual. George Wald- 

 bart was out and seems to have en- 

 tirely recovered from his late illness, 

 and the old horse. Frank Fillmore, 

 was on deck and full of his jokes. 

 Dancing was enjoyed by the younger 

 element to a late hour. 



List of Wtnxer.s. 



Tbree-Legged Kace, boys 12 to IT— Wm. 

 Smith, FrPd Angermueller. 



Halioon R.-ioe. ladies— Red Balloon Team. 



Shoe Pile Race, boys 12 and under— Wm. 

 Smith, Harvey Jablonsky. 



(irabbag, girls 12 and under— Irene 

 Schmaltz. 



Egg Race, girls 12 to 17— Ellen MarcK, 

 DoUv Howell. 



Guessing Contest. attendaufe — Henry 

 Emuuds. BelleviUe, 111. 



Tug of War. men — Phillip Goebel Team. 



Bail game, wholesalers (Hy. G. Berning, 

 c-apt.) vs. retailers (Oscar J. Ruff, capt.) — 

 Wholesalers, 21—19^ 



Novelties furnisTied by the Wholesale 

 Florists' Association. 



An Outing at Fordhook. 



On Saturday last the department 

 managers, farm managers and division 

 foreman of W. Atlee Burpee Co. made 

 a trip of inspection to Fordhook farms. 

 After a careful inspection of the trials 

 they were taken in cars to the various 

 farms, comprising some 800 acres in 

 extent, and the brilliantly colored 

 fields of poppies, phlox, salvia, calen- 

 dulas, petunias, and other flowering 

 plants were certainly gorgeous and at 

 their best. 



This was followed by an inspection 

 of the Collection Gardens. The Subur- 

 ban Garden Collection or Five-Dollar 

 Box was one of the most attractive, be- 

 cause it is very nearly the average 

 garden size namely, 50 x 80 ft. There 

 ■was everything down through the en- 



CYCLAMEN GIGANTEUM 



We offer to the trade our own carefully selected strain 

 which for the past eight years has received our own per- 

 sonal attention, so we feel confident in saying that no 

 better strain can be had anywhere. We have the follow- 

 ing varieties to offer: — 



GLORY OF WANDSBEK 



( Light and Dark shades of 

 Salmon) 



CHRISTMAS CHEER 



(Blood Red) 



BRILLIANT RED 



(Wine Red) 



PURE WHITE 

 WHITE-PINK EYE 



DAYBREAK 



( a lovely shade of Light 



Pink) 

 VICTORIA 



(White, tipped with pink, 



fringed edge) 

 ROSE OF MARIENTHAL 



(Rosy Pink) 

 LAVENDER 



(a beautiful shade) 



Price, $12.00 per looo seeds, Net. 

 Cash with order from unknown correspondents. 



J. A. PETERSON & SONS 



Address Dept. H. 



Westwood, Cincinnati, Ohio 



tire list of vegetables in sufficient 

 quantity for the average family. The 

 Country Garden or Ten Dollar Collec- 

 tion demonstrated the possibilities of 

 an area 100 x 100 ft. The popular One 

 Dollar Box was the best looking small 

 garden that one could possibly imag- 

 ine. E}\en the Children's Garden — 

 Twenty-five Cent Collection of vege- 

 tables and flowers on an area 10 x 10 

 ft. indicated that considerable could 

 be grown. 



The party after being thoroughly 

 refreshed and in good spirits then took 

 a trip to the Zetty Farms, and Castle 

 Valley Farms. On the Zetty Farms a 

 crop of wheat was just being harvested. 



Here also the boys saw that late 

 planted potatoes can be grown very 

 successfully on Bucks County soil. 

 The party returned by way of Fox 

 Farms, and then to Castle Valley 

 Farms where F. F. Rockwell's pigs 

 and peaches received no little atten- 

 tion, and a great deal of enthusiastic 

 comment. 



On the return to Fordhook they par- 

 took of a lunch on the porch of Ford- 

 hook, under the two great Lindens as 

 the guests of David Burpee. Splendid 

 speeches were made by F. F. Rockwell 

 and James A. Crossett, and after a 

 unanimous vote of thanks to the host 

 the autonjobiles were again pressed 

 into service. Everything would have 

 been fine on the return trip, except 

 that we had to change trains at Lans- 

 dale, and here we found that through 

 a wreck farther up the line, we would 

 have to wait one hour and a quarter. 

 Nevertheless, it was voted a perfect 



afternoon by all present, leaving pleas- 

 ant memories of the trip, the after- 

 noon's entertainment, and particularly 

 of the Hungry Man's Collection. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Landscape Engineering in the Na- 

 tional Forests — by Frank A. Waugh, 

 Collaborator, 1918. Published by the 

 Forest Service of the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture. A 38-page pamphlet, 

 illustrated. 



Iowa Horticultural Society, Wesley 

 Green, secretary, Des Moines, la. — 

 Transactions for 1917. A book of 

 476 pages, illustrated. As usual, one 

 of the most intelligent, comprehensive 

 and most useful horticultural publi- 

 cations of the year. 



American Carnation Society. — Pro- 

 ceedings of the twenty-seventh annual 

 meeting, held in Boston, Mass., Jan- 

 uary 30-31, 1918.' Contains pictures of 

 Laddie and Crystal White, two of the 

 season's sensations. Also list of 

 members, etc. A useful 62-page 

 pamphlet. 



The report of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America is received. It 

 gives in full detail the proceedings of 

 the 16th annual meeting, held at 

 Cleveland, Ohio, November 8, 1917. 

 Also list of special prizes awarded at 

 the annual exhibition, held in con- 

 junction with the Cleveland Flower 

 Show, November 8-11, and a review of 

 the work of the examining committees 

 for the season of 1917. A most useful 

 feature is a list of varieties, American 

 and foreign, disseminated in this 

 country in 1917. 



