July 18, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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would fuiuish the next numbers and a 

 group of young men then took the 

 stage. The entire sketch consisted of 

 "hits" on the persons present. :ind all 

 of the more prominent guests came in 

 for their sliare of the raillery. When 

 the program had been completed the 

 young folks availed themselvi s of an 

 opportunity for dancing in the spa- 

 cious parlors. It was a late hour be- 

 fore the guests bade their host and 

 hostess good-night. 



Cincinnati Florists. 



The Florists' Society Outing at the 

 Lagoon was a well attended and suc- 

 cessful affair. The winners of the 

 races and contests were as follows: 



Girls' Foot Race, 10 years; 1st, Agnes 

 Deller; 2ud, Katheriue Murphy. Misses' 

 Foot Kace, 10 years; 1st, Helen Pach; 2nd, 

 Miss Carmicbael. Ladies' Foot Kace; 1st, 

 Mrs. Story; 2nd, Miss Miller. Boys' Foot 

 Race, 7 years; 1st, F. Dellar. .Tr. ; 2nd, C. 

 E. Critehell, Jr. Boys' Foot Itaee 10 

 years ; 1st, C. Stoecliel ; 2ud. C. Meyers. 

 Boys' Foot Race, 16 years; 1st. S. Allen; 

 2nd, A. Stefan. Men's Foot Race; 1st, 

 Nick Weber, Jr. : 2nd. Ben George, Jr. 

 Tug of War, won by Growers, Wm. Murphy 

 tCapt.). Ladies' Base Ball Throwing; 1st, 

 Mrs. Story; 2nd, Miss Ross. Half Mile 

 Run; 1st. A. Kiedel ; 2nd, Chas. Windram; 

 3rd. Harry Mechstrocb. Boat Race; 1st, 

 Chas. Windram; 2nd, Gus Crow. 



Some very fine moving pictures of 

 the affairs are being shown at Keith's 

 this week. 



Cook County (Mi.) Florists' Assqcia- 

 tion. 

 The Cook Co. Florists' Association 

 substituted a boat ride to Michigan 

 City, Ind., on Sunday, for the usual 

 summer picnic in the suburbs. The 

 day was very warm and the lake 

 breezes tempted nearly one hundred to 

 make the trip. Nothing marred the 

 day, unless possibly that the great 

 crowd which the large boat carried, 

 prevented members of the club from 

 visiting with each other. 



Motored From New York to Washing- 

 ton. 



A happy party consisting of J. K. 

 Allen, New York City, A. V. D. Snyder, 

 Ridgewood, N. J., Wm. Thurston, 

 Paterson, N. J., and J. H. Van Moter 

 took an auto trip last week as far as 

 Washington, stopping at Philadelphia, 

 Baltimore and Atlantic City. The trip 

 consumed five days and the excursion- 

 ists consumed everything within reach 

 in the line of feed. 



Newark Florists. 

 The Essex County (N. J.) Florists' 

 Club will have an outing on August 5 

 at Hilton, N. Y. This young organiza- 

 tion already has a membership of G5 

 with Ed. Jacobi as president. 



The annual picnic of the Kentucky 

 Society of Florists took place at 

 Stower's Grove, Tuesday, July 14. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



D. P. Simonds, proprietor of The 

 Ogden Floral Co., has just returned 

 from a fishing trip in northern Wiscon- 

 sin. He says all that he caught was a 

 cold. 



Everett D. Peacock has the contract 

 for the landscape work, including sew- 

 age, etc., on the eight acres of Portage 

 Park, to be improved this year. Work 

 began last week and Chicago will soon 

 have one more beauty spot in its small 

 park system. 



Vacations are the chief order of busi- 

 ness among employees now and mid- 

 summer trade is at its usual slow pace. 

 The friendly checker board is a fa- 

 miliar sight at the wholesalers', but the 

 retail store man is without that con- 

 solation. There is, however a large 

 variety of material With which to make 

 his windows attractive and plenty of 

 passers-by to make note of it. 



The new rose Ophelia, brought from 

 England by E. G. Hill two years ago, 

 is now being cut by F. J. Benthey at 

 his place at Newcastle. Ind.. and sold 

 here by Zech & Mann. It is just now 

 of a very delicate pink, deeper in the 

 center, after the order of Bulgarie, 

 and although so far only comparative- 

 ly short stems can be cut, the rose 

 shows great promise. With the deeper 

 shade and longer stems that will come 

 with the advanced season and the good 

 keeping qualities already shown there 

 is no doubt as to the future popularity 

 of Ophelia. 



The thousands of visitors now pour- 

 ing into the country recently taken 

 over by the state of Illinois for a park, 

 are beginning to realize the wisdom of 

 securing Starved Rock, as its chief at- 

 traction is called, from commercialized 

 destruction. Starved Rock, upon 

 whose level top, 150 feet above the 

 Illinois river, the last of the Illini tribe 

 of Indians met their fate, is a natural 

 fortress, formerly called Port St. Louis. 

 It was discovered by Marque*te and 

 Joliet in 1G73 and fortified by Tonti 



The Florists' Supply 

 House of America 



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 Baskets in Novel Designs and 

 Dainty Material that will please 

 your summer customers. All 

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 variety and at bottom prices. 



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 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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and Dr. La Salle in 1682 and was the 

 first white settlement in the Missis- 

 sippi valley. Adjoining the state park 

 are a series of remarkable canons, at 

 Deer Park, which for coloring and 

 form, equal those of Colorado and the 

 chances are that in a few years these 

 too will be added to the possessions 

 of the state. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



St. Louis— S. S. Skidelsky, Philadel- 

 phia. 



New York — J. J, Karins, represent- 

 ing H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Cincinnati — H. J. Vander Horst, St. 

 Marys, Ohio; B. C. Blake, Springfield, 

 Ohio. 



Philadelphia — Albert Merwarth, Eas- 

 ton. Pa.; George M. Bassett, Hammon- 

 ton, N. J.: Frank Yeaman and Jos. Way, 

 Kennett Square, Pa.; P. De Muth, Con- 

 nellsville, Pa. 



Boston — A. P. Faulkner, New York; 

 Messrs. Thurlow, West Newbury, 

 .Mass.; Robert Craig, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 W. G. Peacock, Brampton, Ont.; John 

 Young. New York City. 



Chicago— Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Elsper- 

 mann, Evansville, Ind.; Mr. Clarion, 

 Stockton. Ohio; P. E. Bonham, Ma- 

 comb, 111.: John Atwood. Lemars, 

 Iowa; Arthur E. Sumner, Garrett, 

 Ind.; Wm. Terrill, Warsaw, Ind.; 'Mr. 

 and Mrs. George Paber. Kankakee, 

 111. 



Kn I K.NoxviLLE Florists 



Left to right— W. R. Rynu. A, H. Dailey, C. W. Crouch, Chas. L. Baum, 

 Addison J. McNutt. 



Ambler. Pa. — The Pennsylvania 

 School of Horticulture for Women is 

 having plans prepared for a three- 

 story building to be erected on its 

 grounds at a cost of about $25,000. The 

 building will be 40x75 ft. 



