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HOETICULTUEE 



July 31, 1915 



Coli: 2d. Miss D. B. Barry; 3d, Miss 

 Phillips. R. L. McLellan was the win- 

 ner in the quoits, singles; George C. 

 Shaffer, 2d; William Clark. 3d. In the 

 doubles R. L. McLellan and J. J. Barry 

 were the winners, with George C. and 

 Arthur J. Shaffer, 2d. 



The baseball teams from the down- 

 town stores won by a number of time- 

 ly hits and good field work. Their 

 opponents were picked from the Ana- 

 costia greenhouses. The score was 10 

 to S. The teams were composed as 

 follows: Shoremen — Charles E, Scar- 

 borough (captain), p.; R. W. Doty, c; 

 I. Rosnosky. 1st b. ; Frank Good. 2d b. ; 

 B. Carrick, 3d b.; John Cook. s. s.; E. 

 Draper, c. f. ; Thomas Featherstone, 

 r. f.; James Daly. 1. f. Greenhouse 

 team — Edward Henning, s. s.; Elmer 

 Padgett (captain). 2d b.; John Carroll, 

 c. f. ; Leslie Dix, 3d b.; H. Sauber, p.; 

 Samuel Ball, c; Walter Gordon, 1. f. ; 

 John Smith, r. f. 



Those who served on the general 

 entertainment committee were O. A. C. 

 Oeiimler, chairman; George W. Hess, 

 George 0. Shaffer, William Marche, 

 George H. Cooke, Edward S. Schmid, 

 Jake Richards. David J. Grillbortzer, 

 Theodore Diedrich. William F. Gude, 

 Harry Lewis, William H. Ernest, Lloyd 

 Jenkins, Otto Bauer, G. Milton Thom- 

 as, Clarence L. Linz and Fred H. 

 Kramer. 



ZVOLANEK'S WINTER-FLOWERING SWEET PEAS. 



ST. LOUIS CLUB PICNIC. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club annual 

 picnic held on Thursday. July 22, 

 in Romona Park, was one of the most 

 successful ever given and brought out 

 the largest crowd yet. Chairman Rowe 

 estimated the crowd at over five hun- 

 dred, which speaks well. Everything 

 they did was pleasing, the music was 

 delightful, the prizes were handsome 

 and in all the contests the entries were 

 large. There were some new and pleas- 

 ing games and all were carried out to 

 the letter. The winners were as fol- 

 lows: 



75 .yard d.isti for men — 1st, Osc:ir Ruff. 

 2nd, J. R. McAlister. 



Flag race, girls — 1st, Miss Dahm ; 2nd, 

 Helen Borkern. 



Backward T\alk for growers — 1st, Gus 

 Hartman : 2nd. W. Ogle. 



Necktie contset for ladies — 1st, Miss Er- 

 linger. 2nd. .Jesse Sanders. 



Ball scramble for boys — 1st, and 2nd won 

 by Gussie and John Cern.v. 



Calico contest for iadies — 1st, Mrs. 

 Ricbie; 2nd. Mrs. Wm. Edwards. 



Gninea catch, open to all — 1st and 2nd 

 won by tbe Williams Bros, 



.50 yard dasb for boys — 1st, E. Globes; 

 2nd, W. Weinberger. 



Time walk for married ladies — 1st, Mrs. 

 W. J. Pilcher: 2nd, Mrs. Lorenze. 



Ball throwing contest for girls — 1st. Miss 

 M. Ninsbeimer; 2nd, Miss A. Woods, 

 wives only — 1st. Mrs. Geo. Pring: 2nd, Mrs. 



Needle threading contest lor growers 

 Rowe. 



00 yard dasb, men — 1st, Joe Hauser; 

 2nd, J. J. Beneke. 



Cigar race, 14 l>oxes of cigars in a row. 

 A race of some 30( men, at 100 yards, the 

 first 14 to win. 



Clock guessing contest — Fredic Stroh- 

 meyer. 



Seed guessing contest — W. .T. Pilcher. 



Tug of war between single and married 

 ladies— married ladies won. 



Tug of war. growers versus retailers — 

 won by .Toe Ilauser's team of growers. 



Tbe b.asoball game between teams made 

 lip of growers and retailers — the growers 

 again came out winners by a score of 22 

 to 20, only five innings. H. Berning and 

 Al Gumz were tbe umpires and ran the 

 came like veterans. 



Display at Panama-Pacific Exp'isition. Winning the Gold Medal of Honor. 



Thirty-nine separate varieties of or- 

 chid sweet peas are planted in this 

 bed. As the ground was not finished 

 in time, the seed was sown the last 

 week in January: they began to bloom 

 the middle of April and promise to be 

 still covered with blossoms for a con- 

 siderable time yet. 



The sub-soil all over the E.xposition 

 garden is quicksand, filled only about 

 10 to 15 inches with sandy loam, 

 mixed with one-third old horse and 

 cow manure and occasionally sprinkled 

 with lime and bone meal. The flowers 

 are picked mostly every day and ex- 

 hibited in the Horticultural Building, 

 and are a great attraction to thousands 



of visitors daily. According to the 

 Exposition official report, this sweet 

 pea exhibit is mostly admired by the 

 visitors in the Exposition Garden. 



In the picture is seen Wm. A. Leslie, 

 the practical grower who has charge 

 of the sweet peas, as well as of many 

 other horticultural exhibits. Mr. Les- 

 lie is under the direct supervision of 

 the landscape architect, Carl Purdy, 

 who is now the Superintendent of the 

 Exposition Horticultural Garden. 



Both these gentlemen are hard and 

 practical workers and many exhibitors 

 in the Horticulture section as well as 

 the general public have reason to be 

 thankful for the excellent work they 

 have accomplished. 



TWIN CITY FLORISTS' CLUB. 



On Tuesday, July 20th, the St. Paul 

 and Minneapolis florists disported 



themselves to Spring Park, Lake Min- 

 netonka for a day's outing. It is esti- 

 mated that they had a gathering of 

 about three hundred. The St. Paulites 

 defeated the Minneapolitans in a base 

 ball game 11 to 4, and a number of 

 races for all ages were run off. A 

 boat ride was a most enjoyable feat 

 ure, as was swimming, bowling and 

 dancing. Henry Krinke a sixty-year- 

 old florist of St. Paul won the first 

 prize for the best old-fashioned waltz. 

 The Winners 



Children's Race — 1st. Kenneth Steadi 

 Mpls. ; 2nd. Albert Stern. Mpls ; .3rd 

 Gladys Sordren. .Mpls.: 4tb. Eugene Olsen 

 St. Paul; 5th, Mary Bolsky, Merriam Park 



Boys' Race— 1st, George Olson, St. Paul; 

 2n(l. Robert Stern. .Mpls.; ard, Waricn 

 Olscn, St. Paul. 



Young Men's Race— 1st. Charles Heard, 

 St. Paul ; 2nd, George Patterson, Mpls ; 

 3rd. George Rowan. St. Paul. 



Girls' Race — 1st, Elsie Puvogel, St. Paul- 

 2nd, Edna Gustafson, St. Paul; 3rd, Heleii 

 Olson, St. Paul. 



Youngi Ladies' Race — 1st. Bertha Ander- 

 son, Mpls. : 2nd. Dorothv Anderson Mpls • 

 3rd. Florence Medici. St. Paul. 



Ladies' Race— 1st. Mrs. W. D. Desmond. 

 Mpls.: 2nd. Mrs. D. W. Grav, St. P.inl • 

 3rd. Mrs. Jake Gazzetti. Mpls. 



Men's Race — 1st. H. H. Puvogpl. St. 

 Paul ; 2nd. Lawrence Kilroy, Mpls. ; 3rd 

 Prank Kennedy, Mpls. 



Fat Man's Race — 1st. F. A. Bavlev. SI. 

 Paul: 2nd. Frank Pena.s, St. Paul; :;rd. 

 Louis Dancik. Mpls. 



Tug of War between Minneapolis and St. 

 Paul, won by St. Paul. Tug of War be- 

 tween Ladies of St. Paul and Minneapolis, 

 won by Minneapolis. 



Base Ball game — Nine innings. Score 

 11-4 in favor of St. Paul. 



Prize Waltzers— 1st. Mrs. W. D. Des- 

 mond. Mpls.: Mr. Henry Krinke. St. Paul: 

 2ncl, .'\lr. and Mrs. C. F. Rice. Mpls.: ::i(l. 

 John Rovik and Minnie Altboss, Mpls. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' PICNIC. 



The big picnic scheduled for July 

 25, at St. Paul's Park, Morton Grove, 

 was not the success it would have 

 been, on account of the boat disaster 

 of the previous day. With over a 

 thousand deaths in the city a gloom 

 prevailed which made pleasure seeking 

 distasteful to many. Had it not been 

 for the preparations which had been 

 made for the event it would have been 

 called off, and notwithstanding the 

 fact that all purchases had been made, 

 the abandoning of the picnic would 

 have met the approval of many. How- 

 ever, the trains and autos brought out 

 a fair number and the usual picnic 

 program was carried out. 



CINCINNATI FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



The annual outing of the Cincinnati 

 Florists' Society at Coney Island was 

 a very successful affair due to the un- 

 tiring efforts of the committee in 

 charge. The baseball team captained 

 by Chas. Windram won the ball game 

 by the close score of 2-1, while P. Jack- 

 son was first in the bowling and C. E. 

 Critchell was second. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 



FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION 



Wilt be beld at the Civic Ceiter Auditoriam, Hayes 



and Larkin Sts., San Francisco, California, 



at 9 a.m. Thursday, AagustlS, 1915 



JOHN G ESLER, Sec. 



