August 12, 1916 



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H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



BRIDES BOUQUET AND LADY'S 



CORSAGE BOUQUET OF SWEET 



PEAS. 



rangements are in the hands of 

 Messrs. Rows, Cerny and Werner and 

 Albert Scheidegger will be marshal. 



Buffalo Florist Club. 



The annual outing of the Buffalo 

 Florist Club was held on Wednesday, 

 August 2, at the Automobile Club 

 Country Home and was a decided suc- 

 cess. The party met at the Kasting 

 Co. store and machines were in wait- 

 ing for a beautiful 16 mile ride to 

 Clarence, N. Y. The party arrived 

 early at the grounds and the long pro- 

 gramme was begun. 



THE GAMES 



In a closely contested baseb.ill gametlie 

 storemen defeated the greenhouse men ; 

 Score, 2 to 1. The rule of having only nine 

 men on a side was suspended. The store 

 players were E. Siatter.v. captain : ^loesel. 

 Fiebellinrn, Jerome, Stroh, Lawrence, 

 House, Roach, Giilies, Berg, Taylnr. liodie, 

 Walther. Grever and Kramer, The green- 

 house team was composed of Palmer Tay- 

 lor, captain ; C. Berner, Willie. A. Berner, 

 Harrington, Gittere, Tighe, O'Brien, Bardo, 

 F. Berner. Christman. Conipton. Brennan 

 and Schlitz. The batteries were: Store 

 team, Kramer, pitcher; Stroh, catcher; 

 greenhouse team, Gittere, pitcher; Tighe, 

 catcher. 



The winners in the 50-yard dasli for Vioys 

 were: Sidney Stall. 1st: Chauncey Neu- 

 becli, 2d; ,Tohn Hunt, 3d. The KK) yard 

 dash for men. l^ years old or over was 

 won by Brennan. 1st; Slattery, 2d: Stuntz, 

 3d: Kraus, 4th: Kinliel, .5th. 



Winners of other contests were: Small 

 boys' and girls' race, I^onald Scott. 1st; 

 Fannie Priesach, 2d : Geraldine Keichert. 

 3d ; .lohn Kasting. 4tU : Girls' race .Miss 

 Wilson, 1st: Miss Blessing. 2d: Miss Red- 

 mond, .3d. Miss Sewell, 4th; Hnrillr race 

 for men. Brennan, 1st. Leo Neubc-Iv. 2d, 

 Kinlile. M. Tobin. 4tli ; Threc-leggid race. 

 A. E. Kiefer and Leo Noubeck. 1st. Ed. 

 Stroh and .John Kramer, 2d: Throwing the 

 baseball, men. Roach. 1st. Grever. 2d, 

 Booker. 3d. Scott. 4th; Throwing the base- 

 ball, ladies, Jliss Blessing, 1st, Miss Bern- 

 er 2d, Miss Hoffman, ,3d. Miss Wliile. 4th. 

 The greenhouse team won against the store 

 men in the t\ig-of-war. 



The dinner was served at 6.30 P. M. 

 in the spacious dining room of the 

 club and 193 were taken care of. The 

 committee had their hands full in tak- 

 ing care of this bunch and it must be 

 said that it was the best otiting yet 

 in the history of the club. 



Which won 1st Prize 

 Sweet Pea Show. 

 Floral Co., Inc.; 



at tin- San ]''r:incisco 

 E.\hil)ited l)y Art 

 San Francisco. 



ST. LOUIS COUNTY PICNIC. 



The St. Louis County Growers' As- 

 sociation will hold its annual picnic 

 August 24 at Creve Coeur Lake. Ar- 



CLEVELAND FLORISTS PLAN CO- 

 OPERATIVE DISPLAY. 



Cleveland florists who are members 

 of The Florists' Club will give a novel 

 demonstration of their enterprise by 

 taking advantage of the great public- 

 ity opijortunities at the coming expo- 

 sition in their city. The club has 

 raised a fund for a cooperative exhibit 

 as a feature of the flower section of 

 the Industrial Exposition and Fair, 

 given there September 2 to 9 under 

 the management of M. A. Vinson. This 

 will be one of the most pretentious 

 floral displays ever staged for commu- 

 nity benefit and will illustrate the va- 

 ried uses of flowers and plants. 



Timothy Smith, chairman of the 

 flower show committee, has appointed 

 F. C. W. Brown of the J. M. Gasser Co., 

 Charles Russell of the Jones-Russell 

 Co.. and Frank Ritzenthaler of Knoble 

 Bros., to plan and execute this most in- 

 teresting feature display. The com- 

 mittee plan on distributing a neat fold- 

 er calling the attention of the public 

 to the club's progress in Cleveland. 



Among those who have already 

 taken space in the Flower Show tent 

 are B. Hammond Tracy, gladiolus spe- 

 cialist, Wenham, Mass; Stunipp & 

 Walter Co., bulbs and seeds. New York 

 City; Templin, Crocket, Bradley, oper- 

 ating children's flower mission; John 

 Scheepers Co., New York City; Cleve- 

 land Bird Lovers' Association; Eagle 

 Wire Works, Cleveland; Liquid Fertil- 

 izer Co.; Cleveland Garden Soil Co.; 

 Storrs and Harrison Co., Painesville. 

 A model greenhouse will be erected by 

 Uitchings & Co., Elizabeth, N. J. 



Plans are completed for the annual 

 exhibition of flowers, fruit and vege- 

 tables in the town hall, Andover, Mass., 

 Friday. Sept. 8, from 5 to 10 P. M., and 

 Saturday, Sept. 9. from 2 to 9 P. M, The 

 exhibition will be bj- Andover Florists' 

 and Gardeners' club, the A. V. I. S. and 

 the Andover Guild and these organiza- 

 tions expect to make it the best show 

 yet held in Andover. 



