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HOETICULTURE 



July 26, 1913 



DURING RECESS 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston. 



The Grand Annual Picnic of the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club of Boston 

 came off as scheduled, on Wednesday, 

 July 23, the usual happy group of la- 

 dies and children being present and 

 the interest in the various games well 

 maintained. President Wm. J. Ken- 

 nedy made a model ringmaster and 

 with his several associates on the va- 

 rious committees, judges, umpires, 

 etc., worked hard and successfully and 

 everything was done with a system 

 and promptness that did great credit 

 to all. In the absence of Peter M. 

 Miller, attending the funeral of Mr. 

 Gleason, W. N. Eaton of the Cunning- 

 ham Gymnasium officiated as starter 

 and in the absence of W. N. Craig, 

 nursing a case of lumbago, J. R. Ness 

 made an efficient clerk. 



Sports and Winners. 



Baseball — Commercial vs. Private Gar- 

 deners. Captains, Thomas Anderson and 

 Henry L. Pree. Won by Private Garden- 

 ers, 9 to 7. 



. Baseball — Boys 16 and under. Captains, 

 Robert Smith and Alfred Hall. Won by 

 Captain Smith's team. 



Qnolt Match — Commercial vs. Private 

 Gardeners. Captains, D. Ilifle and Kenneth 

 Flnlayson. Won by Private Gardeners, 63 

 to 24. 



50-yard Race for Girls 13 and under— 

 Mary Iliffe; Susie Rogers. 



50-yard Race for Boys under 8 — L. 

 Sprowl: Arthur Rogers. 



100-yard Race for Single Ladies— Edith 

 IHtte; W. Free. 



50-yard Race for Girls under 8 — Mary 

 Flood; Doris Bartsch. 



50-yard Race for Boys 13 and under — Z. 

 HoUingsworth; Thos. Roland, Jr. 



Egg and Spoon Race for Married Ladies 

 — Mrs. Fred Coles ; Mrs. H. Woods. 

 Potato Race for Boys under 15 — Thos. 

 I^ally; T. Palmer. 



Flag Race for Girls under 15 — M. Iliffe; 

 E. Iliffe. 



High Jump— W. J. Collins; W. Iliffe. 



Fat Men's Race — J. Smith; Thos. Lally. 



Baseball — Married vs. Single Ladies- 

 Won by Single Ladies, 12 to 1. 



Half-Mile Race — W. Pree; W. Iliffe. 



50-yard Race for Boys and Girls under 6 

 — Lindy Rogers; Ruth Brown. 



Needle Threading Race for Ladies over 

 50. 35 yards — Mrs. Kenneth Finlayson. 



100-yard Race for Men- W. Pree; W. 

 Iliffe. 



Sack Race for Boys under 16 — Charles 

 Craig; Wm. Westwood. 



Three-Legged Race for Men — G. Palmer 

 and T. Westwood. 



Three-Legged Race for Boys under 18 — 

 Parker and White; Eisenhart and Hassel- 

 man. 



Sack Race for Men— W. J. Collins; E. 

 Holland. 



Obstacle Race — Thos. Westwood; W. 

 Westwood. 



Tug-of-War — Commercial vs. Private 

 Gardeners. Captains. James Wheeler and 

 John L. Smith. A victory for the Private 

 Gardeners, as usual. 



'Walter Mott's Reflections on the 

 Picnic. 



The game of baseball between the 

 married and single ladies was most 

 exciting. Billy Cahill was referee and 

 assisted by some of the rising stars 

 he rendered excellent service and al- 

 though the game was decided in favor 

 of the single, the married ladies 

 opined that in the long run they 

 would win. No one disputed this. 

 Arthur Griffin, one of the interested 

 spectators was overheard to remark 

 that he would hate to return home late 

 at night were one of the wielders of 

 the bat his better half. 



While owing to unpreventable cir- 

 cumstances many old time attendants 

 were absent, it was a representative 

 crowd that fraternized with each 



other. The best side of one's nature 

 is seen and many friendships formed 

 that are impossible otherwise particu- 

 larly among the younger element. 



Fred C. Green, superintendent of 

 Parks at Providence, was heard to re- 

 mark that such a gathering would be 

 a grand thing for his fellow-craftsmen, 

 who so seldom see each other espe- 

 cially since the flower market was 



abandoned. 



The Lancaster County Florists' Club. 

 Tuesdav July 15th was picnic day for 

 this club "and about 125 of us left Lan- 

 caster, 8 A. II., for Hershey and a day's 

 recreation. The out of town guests 

 were S. S. Pennock, Mr. Bailey and 

 Max A. Fierstein of Philadelphia: Mr. 

 and Mrs. James Brown of Coatsville 

 and Percy Bernard of Chester Co. 



Any ride through Lancaster County 

 is interesting from both a pictorial and 

 an agricultural point of view and al- 

 ways enjoyable. Purely nature lovers 

 were regaled while going through the 

 mountains at Penryn Park. The iron 

 ore mines and works in the vicinity of 

 Lebanon were a revelation to many and 

 the ride from Lebanon to Hershey 

 through the Lebanon Valley was not 

 without interest. 



Arriving at Hershey, 10 A. M., we 

 were taken in charge by Mr. Haver- 

 stick who has full charge of the floral 

 and landscape work in and around 

 Hershey. The park surrounding the 

 works first attracted our attention and 

 we were then taken through the fac- 

 tory Itself where about fourteen car- 

 loads of chocolate candies and choco- 

 late and cocoa are shipped out every 

 day of the week excepting Sunday. 

 There are about twenty three acres of 

 floor space and fourteen hundred em- 

 ployees at work here, but this was a 

 side issue with us and we were then 

 conducted to the residence about a 

 mile distant, the whole one continuous 

 landscape effect rivaling the best in 

 the country. 



At the residence we grouped faith- 

 fully for two pictures but sad to relate 

 both were failures, the first no doubt 

 through the reflection of the sun from 

 the President's bald head and the 

 second supposedly from trying to get 

 S. S. Pennock's full length focused on 

 the plate. 



After a sumptuous dinner we all 

 went to the Hershey Park and Picnic 

 grounds where boating, swimming, 

 dancing and all other imaginable 

 picnic sports were the order of the 

 day. 



"To properly settle their noon lunch 

 a number of real sports indulged in a 

 game of baseball, with Elmer Weaver 

 of Ronks as umpire and W. B. Girvin 

 of Leola as star batter. Stunts were 

 pulled off that can never be seen in 

 any of the National League games. 

 Any ball that was within four feet of 

 the plate was called a strike, and Gir- 

 vin's home run hit was knocked thirty 

 feet from the plate by actual measure- 

 ment and dropped by each base player 

 successively until he reached home in 

 safety. Of course we could not blame 

 our out-of-town players for a few 

 errors as they were not used to Lan- 

 caster County base ball. 

 In the bowling best out of three 



games It narrowed down to our treas- 

 urer, Harry Rohrer, Elmer Weaver 

 and the president, A. M. Herr and Mrs. 

 A. M. Herr, the latter winning out 

 with strikes and spares and some sixty 

 pins to the good, Mr. Weaver felt so 

 badly being beaten by a woman that 

 he rolled a consolation game all by 

 himself and made a score of 171. 

 Dancing was at a discount, but slid- 

 ing down the cellar doors was an al- 

 lurement that even some of the digni- 

 fied aristocrats could not resist. 



The run home was made in the cool 

 of the evening and fittingly ended a 

 very pleasant day. 



August 21st will find us seriously 

 discussing the Aster proposition with 

 an exhibit connected with it. Ye 

 Aster experts note the date. 



Albert M. Heer. 



St. Louis Florist Club. 



This long looked for event took place 

 on Thursday, July 17th, at Romona 

 Park. It was the largest crowd that 

 ever attended a picnic given by the St 

 Louis Florist Club. Two much credit 

 cannot be given the club's trustees. A 

 splendid band of music was on hand 

 mostly for the benefit of the younger 

 folks, who spent most of the day in 

 the dance hall. At 3 o'clock the crowd 

 was estimated at 400 and the commit- 

 tee on games started their work at 

 the upper end of the park — and the 

 following persons connected with the 

 trade in some way won the different 

 events: — 



K. Ogle and Joe Hauser won 1st and 2nd 

 in 50-yard race. Henry Emunds and W. 

 Ogle won the time-walking match. Misses 

 Potter and Rienecke won the young ladies' 

 race of 30 yards. The little girls' race, 15 

 years and under, was won by Miss H. 

 Emunds. and T. Nighwander. G. Cerny and 

 J. Roehn won the boys' race, 16 years and 

 under. K. Ogle won the shot-putting con- 

 test, throwing the shot 36 feet. Mrs. Pat- 

 ton 1st in the ladies' ball-throwing con- 

 test: Miss Spiegel 2nd. Oliver Sanders and 

 Al. Gumz 1st and 2nd in the hop, step and 

 jump contest. The ladies' tug-of-war, 

 fifteen on a side, was one of the 

 features on the programme. Mrs. 

 Faber's team beat Mrs. C. Beyer's team 

 after a hard pull. The finding of the shoe, 

 for small boys, was amusing. A. Flanagan 

 won 1st and Cluet Faber 2nd. Geo. Wal- 

 bart's novelty race, for ladies, brought out 

 a field of 45, the winners being Miss 

 Wacher and Mrs. F. Fillmore, Jr. Girls' 

 novelty race was won by Paula Emunds 

 with Miss Kuhleman 2nd. Ladies' egg and 

 spoon race. Mrs. W. J. Pilcher 1st and Mrs. 

 O. Kuehn 2nd. The men's tug-of-war 

 brought out great excitement, and when 

 Jules Bourdet's French team bucked Geo. 

 B. Windler's German team the Germans 

 won after a 10-minutes' hard pull. The 

 St. Louis Seed Co., the Schlsler Grain Co. 

 and the Schisler-Corneli Seed Co. held a 

 guessing contest with jars of beans. The 

 winners in this were Mrs. J. Hauser. Miss 

 Engel. W. J. Meyer. J. H. Baracher, Ella 

 I.ippert. L. Meuser and A. Cerny. 



After a good dinner the older folks 

 gave way to the younger ones, who 

 stayed until late hours, when all went 

 home and will long remember the day. 



Cincinnati Florists' Society. 



At the picnic last Thursday, the fol- 

 lowing were the winners in bowling: 

 1st, Ben George, Jr.; 2nd, J. Van 

 Welke; 3rd, A. C. Heckman, Jr. 



The team captained by A. C. Heck- 

 man, Jr.. and composed of A. C. Heck- 

 man, Jr., Chas. Windram, Roy Murphy, 

 Alex. Ostendarp, Ed. Murphy, Roy 

 Harkman, R. Jennings, Chas. Garvey 

 and Linfoot, won 10 to 3. 



