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HORTICULTURE 



March 4. 1911 



During Recess 



Gardeners' aVid Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton. 

 The annual banquet of this lively 

 organization was held on Tuesday 

 evening, Februai-y 28, and was a glori- 

 ous succets from start to finish. The 

 banquet, attended by about three hun- 

 dred members and ladies in evening 

 array, took place in the lecture hall 

 of the Horticultural Building and the 

 big exhibition hall was reserved for 

 the grand march and dancing which 

 followed the feast of reason and flow 

 of soul which supplemented so accep- 

 tably the well-directed efforts of the 

 banquet committee and Caterer Whit- 

 temore. The halls were beautifully 

 adorned with plants and flowers, 

 George Anderson having again gener- 

 ously devoted a whole afternoon to 

 this laudable purpose and the contri- 

 butions of flowers, etc., from members 

 and others being very fine. After the 

 appeasement of the inner man (ana 

 woman). President Miller voiced a 

 hearty welcome to members and in- 

 vited guests and introduced Wm. J. 

 Stewart, senior ex-president, as toast- 

 master. The first speaker was Walter 

 Ballantyne, acting-mayor of Boston, 

 who gave eloquent tribute to the In- 

 fluence of the club in Boston's park 

 work and civic refinement. W. W. 

 Craig spoke forcibly on behalf of the 

 Private Gardener and Peter Fisher for 

 the Commercial Grower. One of the 

 most welcome guests was President 

 Charles W. Parker of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, who fol- 

 lowed Mr. Ballantyne and expressed 

 in hospitable words the maternal feel- 

 ings of the mother organization to- 

 wards her lusty progeny, the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club. Interspersed 

 between the speeches were duets by 

 Mrs. McKeon and John Miller, and 

 solos by these singers, readings by 

 Miss Connolly, character dancing by 

 the Mifses Irvine, zither solos by 

 Louise Eisenhardt, and solos by Neil 

 Miller, together with characteristic 

 and pertinent comment by the toast- 

 master. 



At 9.30 the grand march was on 

 headed by President Miller and Mrs. 

 Parker, C. W. Parker and Mrs. E. M. 

 Gill, Secretary Craig and Mrs. Craig, 

 Treasurer Fisher and Mrs. Fisher and 

 Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stewart. Then 

 came the dancing, which the young 

 people enjoyed until the last moment 

 under the able management of Wm. 

 McGillivray and his aids. The recep- 

 tion committee under Chairman P. J. 

 Turley did its duty in excellent man- 

 ner and Miss J. S. Rifford as accom- 

 panist, and Hutchins' Orchestia, all 

 filled their part to perfection. 



A Good Time at Bar Harbor. 



The third annual concert and ball 

 of the Bar Harbor Horticultural So- 

 ciety took place FYiday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 24th. The event was a grand 

 success, some 75 couples taking part 

 in the grand march, which was led by 

 Clifford P. Cains and Miss Prances 

 Moran. 



The committees In charge were as 

 follows : 



Floor man.iger— Bernard .Moiiis; Akl.s — 

 James Morrison. Keuj. A. finwer, .Tobn H. 

 Stafford, Isaac Plillsou and Martin Brewer: 

 Reception Committee— Edward Kirk, Wm. 

 T. Burton, Wm. Miller, B. S. Higgins, M. 



C. Jlorrisou and Hon. B. E. Clark; Decora- 

 tion Committee — Cbas. L. Sbaiid, A. E. 

 Chitmau, John Ueuwitz and Joseiih Kirby; 

 Refreshment Committee — T. 1'. Junes, Clif- 

 ford K. Cains and James Craniftird. 



This society, although young Is in 

 a good vigorous condition, having 

 sometliing like two hundred members 

 in good standing, with several of the 

 cottage owners as life members. The 

 officeis are: Geo. B. Dorr, piesident: 

 Lewis B. McEgg, first vice-president; 

 Wm. Miller, second vice-president; 

 Bernard Morris, third vice-president; 

 Chas. L. Shand, clerk; A. C. Chilman, 

 financial secretary; Wm. T. Burton, 

 treasurer; John H. Stotford, sergeant- 

 at-arms. C. L. S. 



Buffalo vs. Rochester. 



A very enjoyable evening was spent 

 on Thursday last when our brother 

 florists from Rochester paid us a visit 

 for which a match game of bowling 

 had been arranged. A good delegation 

 mot them at the depot and escorted 

 them to the Hofbrau for dinner. A 

 very comfortable hour was spent there 

 before going to Oertels' alleys where 

 the remainder of the club members 

 were in waiting. 



ROCHESTER. BUFFALO. 



Jenn.v, inO 171 174 Neub'ol;, 165 191 1.511 

 Philips, 166 159 138 Street, 115 1.59 1611 

 C. Vick, 127 ... 118 Kasting, 175 156 15'. 

 Mam, 105 14.3 . . . Cl'dslev, 130 130 163 

 A. Vick. 134 134 143 S'uaf'd, 169 ISS 1.55 

 M.K'irr, ... l.ji ... 

 F.Kell'r VM / 



691 744 733 • 754 824 7T.s 



Three games were bowled and tue 

 above shows results, much in favor 

 of Buffalo. 



After the match game a fine spread 

 was prepared, after which a match 

 was found between Geo. Jenney and 

 Bart Davi.s of Rochester, with Sam 

 Wallace and Geo. McClure of Buffalo, 

 the latter taking all three games. Six 

 games for one night; enough said, 

 Buffalo means business. 



A return match will be had in Roch- 

 ester on Wednesday evening, March 

 8th, and a good bunch of the Buftalo 

 rooters will go down to cheer the 

 home winners. Felix Albert, a former 

 Buffalo florist was with the Rochester 

 rooters. 



Chicago Bowlers. 



The Chicago Florists' Bowling Club 

 will play the Milwaukee team in their 

 own city March 19th. At their regu- 

 lar meeting. Feb. 22nd, the Chicago 

 team made the following scores: 



ROSES. CARNATIONS. 



1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd 



Wint'rs'n,i:U 148 76 Krauss, 140 1S9 114 



Klunder, 115 129 1.5R Ayers. 1G3 190 157 



Foster. 145 143 190 H'bn'r, ir.l92 107 105 



AVoIf. 186 178. 14S Schtiltz. 176 171 182 

 A. Zeck. 170 166 187 



ORCHIDS. VIOLETS. 



1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd 



H'lm'r, sr.i:!l 160 131 Wnts'n,.ir.lH .58 81 



ZpcI;. 146 223 190 Li'b'rm'n. 132 124 99 



Graff, 166 179 165 Fr'dm'n. 129 136 166 



DcL-nan. 113 125 144 I.orman. 121 135 170 



Farley. 178 143 139 Rilev, 158 139 161 



New York Bowlers. 



Last Friday evening the following 

 scores were recorded: 



Scott, 145 l:-;4 175 licit. 107 129 112 



Sliaw, 100 123 145 Fenrich, 149 127 103 



N'nuent. 107 125 97 Berrv. i:'.9 97 — 



Moltz. 9.S 117 129 Yonng, — 107 116 



Kakuda, 155 119 102 



the meeting, Astoria, L. I., N. Y., 

 Thursday evening, February 23: 



Sieh., W., 172 154 135 Kcssler, 131 150 148 



Shaw, 164 151 120 Lorenz, 111 154 123 



Ebel, 99 98 — Sieb., H., — 131 183 



Sieb., Jr., 165 181 112 Jni''bs'n, 114 102 128 



D'n'l(ls"n,128 110 124 Eichm'nn. — 175 160 



Miesem, 158 121 170 llcintz, — 99 lOO 



Einsm'n, 140 153 164 Moltz, — 101 105 



Dr'h'fer, 161 148 — Bl'ckw'n, — 141 123. 



Kdmisfn, 102 l.'i5 120 Arnold. — 100 111 



The prize for high score presented 

 by M. C. Ebel was won by H. Sie- 

 brecht. As the score shows, the donor 

 of the prize made a special effort not 

 to win it himself. Next meeting will 

 be Ladies' Night. 



Astoria Bowlers. 



The following scores were made at 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



The American Peony Society held an 

 ex.ecutive meeting here on the 1st inst. 



W. Atlee Burpee left for a brief so- 

 journ in Florida and other parts of the 

 sunny south on the 2;3rd inst. 



B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., re- 

 ]3orts their Easter business far ahead 

 of last year in advance booking. Their 

 factory Is now working overtime three 

 nights a week. The demand is espe- 

 cially heavy on plant baskets. 



Capt. Burnett Landreth of the Lan- 

 dreth Seed Co., is also among the Flor- 

 ida sojourners. He will make a flying 

 visit incidentally to Cuba (before re- 

 turning to Philadelphia) on behalf of 

 some business interests he has there. 



The sunny south will have a chance 

 to look on the smiling countenance of 

 the only M. Rice, of M. Rice & Co., 

 who sailed on a well-earned vacation 

 from New York on the 25th ult., ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Rice. The sojourn- 

 ers expect to return to Philadelphia in 

 about two months. 



I. C. Townsend, of Merchantville, N. 

 J., gave an interesting lecture on 

 hardy perennials at Michell's on Feb- 

 ruary 27th. There was a good attend- 

 ance of the general public and the lec- 

 turer was followed with close atten- 

 tion and highly applauded. These 

 monthly talks are doing a great 

 amount of good. 



Do not forget the two big events of 

 next week, the King lecture on green- 

 house construction at the Florists' 

 Club on Tuesday evening, March 7, 

 and the trip to the new Dreer place at 

 Riverview, Wednesday, March 8th, 

 leaving Market street ferry at 2 p. m. 

 Latter event as guests of Messrs. 

 Dreer. Return 5.45 p. m. All members 

 of Florists" Club invited, and same 

 from New York, Baltimore, Washing- 

 ton and Boston. 



"The prodigal son has returned," re- 

 marked Robert Gaul this morning. On 

 being asked to explain he pointed to 

 the big stacks of roses and other flow- 

 ers now coming in — so our dense in- 

 tellect was properly humbled and we 

 now spell son sun. Mr. Gaul is an 

 important factor in the d'semiration 

 of the celebrated P. M. quality, and 

 does his prettiest to keep up th^ good 

 repute of the house. As Shakesp are 

 would say: "A pun! a pun my word."^ 

 Is it any. wcndei- the house shines for 

 all, with sr.cli brilliancy among its 

 personnel? 



Visitors: William J. Halliday, Bal- 

 timore, Md.; H. La Valle, grower for 

 J. H. Small & Sons, Washington, D. C; 

 P. Joseph Lynch, New Castle, Ind.; I. 

 C. Townsend, Merchantville, N. J.; 

 Mr. Bochman, grower for Stockton & 

 Howe, Princeton, N. J. 



