July 4. 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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A SOUVENIR OF WARETOWN 



Beading from Left to Kislit, Back Bow— Kolicrl Kift. \Villi;iiu V. Glide. Cliarles 

 H Eimerman, George C. Watson, Georee Craig. Josepli C. Trainer. Bobort Craig. J. C. 

 Vaughan. JoLn Westeott. Front Row. Left to Riglit— Jolin Burton. J. B. Deamud^ 



DURING RECESS. 



N. Y. & N. J. Association of Plant 

 Growers. 



The New York & New Jersey Asso- 

 ciation of Plant Growers, held its 8th 

 annual outing on June 23. 24 and 25, 

 1914, at the Hotel Kittatinny, Delaware 

 Water Gap, Pa. The first day was 

 spent in wandering tlirough the prem- 

 ises, and in the evening dancing was 

 provided. In the morning of the sec- 

 ond day prize bowling took place, at 

 which Mrs. Wm. H. Siebrecht, Jr., took 

 the first prize and Miss Lillian Zeller 

 second prize. Daniel Schultheis toolc 

 first in the gentlemen's bowling frames 

 and Julius Roehrs captured second. In 

 the afternoon of the second day, the 

 party enjoyed a trolley ride through 

 Stroudsburg and to Portland. In the 

 evening another dance was enjoyed. 

 The morning of the third day was 

 spent motoring through the mountains 

 to the Buckwood Inn. It was one of 

 the most successful outings held by 

 the association. Forty-nine adults and 

 three children attended. The outing 

 committee was Julius Roehrs. chair- 

 man Anton Schultheis, Wm. H. Sie- 

 brecht, Jr. 



weather very hot, and out-of-door 



stock is suffering. The Howell Nur- 

 sery Company reports stock looking 

 better since the rain, although the 

 drought has done a great deal of dam- 

 age and at least 50 per cent of young 

 shrubbery was lost. Prospects are very 

 promising for fall business 



On Juiie 26. the picnic committee of 

 Knoxville Florists' Society, namely, A. 

 J. McNutt. Louis Giger. Karl P. Baum 

 and Dr. Sam Boyd selected the grounds 

 for the first annual picnic, which will 

 take place on July 9. They found a 

 desirable place having a nice spring 

 grove, and on a river where fishing, 

 bathing and pearl hunting cannot be 

 beaten. The place is known as Clinch 

 River Station, on the K. C. G. & L. Ry., 

 42 miles north of Knoxville. All stores 

 have a display card in their windows 

 announcing that on July 9, they will 

 be closed, and all mail sent out car- 

 ries a little notice blank bearing the 

 same announcement. 



A. J. McNtiTT, Sec. 



KNOXVILLE, TENN. NOTES. 



Addison J. McNutt is about through 

 cutting America gladiolus, which have 

 been very fine and the demand has 

 been very great. 



A. H. Dailey is doing general im- 

 proving and repair work at his green- 

 houses getting ready for the coming 

 season. He reports the bedding plant 

 trade as very heavy, but now finished. 



Roses and carnations have been very 

 scarce, and it has been rather hard to 

 get enough to go around for the last 

 ten days. Chas. L. Baum is getting 

 lumber on the ground to build a two- 

 story shed, which will be used as a 

 carpenter shop and a soil and planting 

 shed, and will be a great improvement. 



Since our last report we have had 

 one good rain, about three inches, but 

 the ground is again very dry and the 



"SOME" MARATHON. 



The following amusing account of a 

 twenty-five mile hike liy the victor, 

 Edward Swayne. a well-known florist 

 of Chester County, Pa., will interest 

 his many friends in all parts of the 

 country, especially his old chum, Ed- 

 win Lonsdale of Lompoc, California. 

 Mr. Swayne is 61 years old. his oppo- 

 nent, Mr. Sproat, 37. G. C. W. 



"My Maratlioii from Pottstown to West 

 Cliester. .Iniie ITtli. terminated in my favor 

 liy a lai'.i^f margin. It is 25 miles of roiigli. 

 stony, hilly road. I finished in 4 hours. 

 .".0 minutes, and Mr. Sproat in (J hours. ;iO 

 minutes. I covered the first 19 miles in ". 

 hours. .S minutes, and having nobody to 

 hurr.v me (as I did not see Mr. Sproat 

 after 7 milesi. I walked the balance of the 

 \vay. Sproat is iinite a walker. He covered 

 tlie first :; miles in 3.") minutes with very 

 little running, as it was about all up hill. 

 Ills strides in walking is about 3 ft., 4 in. 

 I made a careful study of his stride and 

 style from the rear during that time and 

 made up my mind he would eat out of my 

 hand whenever I asked him to, which I did 

 at (1 miles.- He was quite tame then, his 

 stride coming down to mine, about 3 ft. I 

 went very easily for 1-5 or 16 miles, with- 



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"Ut any training in running whatever, but 

 I found that 25 miles was quite a distance. 

 I don't think I am any the worse for it, 

 however." 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Washington. D. C; W. J. Vesey, Jr., 

 Port Wayne, Ind.. and J. C. Vaughan, 

 Chicago. • 



St. Louis: George Madson, Alton, 

 111.; Edwin Denker, St. Charles, Mo.; 

 E. W. Guy. H. G. Fehr. Gust. Grossart, 

 W. E. Ogie, all of Belleville, 111. 



Boston; H. C. Neubrand, represent- 

 ing A. N. Pierson. Inc., Cromwell, 

 Conn.; C. C. Massie. Minneapolis, 

 Minn.; D. Cameron. New York repre- 

 sentative of F. Sander & Sons. 



Chicago — M. S. Crozer, representing 

 .1. G. Crozer, Cedar Rapids, la.; Mr. 

 and Mrs. Olaf Olsen, Ames, la.; J. 

 Stuppy. of the Stuppy Floral Co., St. 

 .Joseph, Mo.; Swan Peterson, Rock- 

 ford, 111. 



Philadelphia— Mr. and Mrs. Vesey 

 and Mrs. Woods, Fort Wayne, Ind.; 

 P. Joseph Lynch, New Castle, Ind.; 

 B. W. Delaney, representing J. Chas. 

 McCullough, Cincinnati, 0.; W. G. Gre- 

 nell and grandson Wm. Grenell, Pierre- 

 pont Manor, N. Y. 



The third annual flower show at 

 Stockbridge. Mass., held at the Casino 

 on June 2.5 and 26. was a brilliant and 

 very successful affair. There were 

 roses, peonies, aquilegias. irises, cam- 

 panulas and garden bloom of all 

 classes in great variety and profusion. 

 The floral arrangements by the so- 

 ciety ladies were exquisite. 



