HORTICULTUKE 



September 23, 1916 



During Recess 



The Farquhar Outing. 

 On Saturday afternoon, September 

 16. the employees of R. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co , Boston and Dedham, Mass.. held 

 their first outing, and so successful 

 was it that it is hereafter an assured 

 annual event. There were nearly one 

 hundred in the party and a special 

 car carried them from Boston to 

 the Spring Grove at Wellesley. Fol- 

 lowing is the "list of events" and the 



winners: , * -d 



100-Yard Dash tor Men— 1st, R. 

 Chapman, store; 2nd. E. Johnson, nur- 



scry. 



50-Yard Dash for Girls— 1st, Miss C. 

 Wannberg. store; 2nd. Miss R. Mc- 

 Bride. store. 



Pipe Race— H. Jones, store. 



Three-Legged Race— T. Westwood 

 and M. Raux, store. 



Throwing Baseball tor Distance tor 

 Girls— 1st, Miss S. Suttoa, store; 2nd, 

 Miss R. Beckett, nursery. 



er- J. W. Davy, announcer 



Umpires for Baseball Game 

 Armstrong and John Traquair. 



Referee tor Soccer Football 

 Don M. Smith. 



Official Scorer— Jack Patten. 



Prize Awarder— John K. M. 

 auhar. 



Music— John Cody, piano; 

 Horton. drums. 



Concert and Dancing— Miss 

 len, soloist; R. Chapman, 

 Chaplin act: George Sanford. 

 lection; Harold Leary and 

 Green, exhibition toe dancing. 



Luncheon was served in a 

 pavilion. 



Newport Horticultural Society. 

 Hundreds of people packed the ca- 

 pacious beach dance hall, Tuesday eve- 

 ning. September 12, for the eighteenth 

 annual ball of the Newport Horticul- 

 tural Society, which was, as m other 

 years, one of the social events of the 

 "local season. Probably the biggest at- 

 traction, other than the ball itself, was 

 th'e presence of Conrad's complete or- 

 chestra, with Mr. Henri Conrad lead- 

 ing to render the latest music for a 

 program of 20 dances. The couples 



; — James 

 Game — 



L. Far- 

 William 



H. Mul- 

 Charley 

 flute se- 

 William 



spacious 



'I'liF. F.\miCH.\it Oliing. 

 Men Over 40, Ready for the 50-yard Dasb. 



50-Yard Dash tor Men Over 40— 

 John Van Leeuwen, nursery. 



Relay Race Between Store and Nur- 

 sery—Won by Store: T. Westwood, G. 

 Saiiford. H. Jones. R. Chapman. 



Baseball Game— Store and Nursery, 

 five innings, resulted in a tie, 5 to 5. 

 The features of the game was the 

 battery work of Stead and Chapman 

 for tlie store, and McGoldrick and 

 Johnson for the nursery. The game 

 was a regular Red Sox-Detroit affair. 



The soccer football game between 



the store and nursery was won by the 



nursery, in a well-played game, 1 to 0. 



Valuable prizes were awarded in 



each event. 



The committee in charge was J. W. 

 Davy, chairman; V. E. Nilsson, finan- 

 cial secretary; Miss Agnes Keogh, 

 William Bewsher, Frank Stead. Arthur 

 Holland, Edw. Johnson and Patrick 

 Fordham. 



Officials of G.\mes. 



Athletic Events— Frank Stead, clerk 

 of course; Edw. Johnson, timer; Alex. 

 P. Dewar, Frank Murray, Wm. Gor- 

 don, judges; John Van Leeuwen, start- 



applauded so vigorously after each se- 

 lection that an unusual number of en- 

 cores had to be given, thus carrying 

 the ball on until 2.30 before the final 

 waltz was played. That all present 

 enjoyed the music and the dancing 

 was evident when the large crowd re- 

 mained practically intact until the 

 last dance. John T. Allan was fioor 

 manager, with Colonel Herbert Bliss 

 assistant floor manager. The aides 

 were Messrs. Andrew S. Meikle. Alex- 

 ander Fraser. Bruce Butterton, Fred- 

 erick Carter and John Mahon. The 

 ball committee was composed of Mr. 

 John B. Lirquhart, chairman; Mr. 

 Frederick P. Webber, secretary and 

 treasurer, and Messrs. William Gray, 

 Andrew S. Meikle, William Smith and 

 William MacKay. On the reception 

 committee were Messrs. William Mac- 

 Kav, Bruce Butterton, James McLeish, 

 James Sullivan, Alexander MacLellan. 

 Andrew S. Meikle, James Robertson, 

 Richard Gardner, A. K. McMahon 

 and John T. Allan. 



The proieeds will be used to pro- 

 vide for two or more public lectures 

 on horticultural subjects during the 

 winter. 



Rhinebeck Growers. 



The Rhinebeck (N. Y.) Violet Grow- 

 ers held their first outing at Pinks 

 Pond on Saturday, September 9. it 

 was a very succussful occasion both 

 socially and piscatorially and will be 

 made an annual event. 



FIFTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY. 



Tom Roland was spending his good 

 money advertising the Lorraine Be- 

 gonia". He knew how. Now he s rich. 

 White Golden Gate, "the great prize 

 winner," was the slogan of the Amer- 

 ican Rose Co. of Washington, D. C. 

 That one brings many pleasant mem- 

 ories—also some sad. Benj. Durfee 

 was a good old scout in his day and 

 not afraid to advertise. 



S L Watkins, of Grizzly Flats. Cali- 

 fornia, was advertising the best mole 

 and gopher trap ever devised. 



A would-be orator was making a 

 speech here in Philadelphia recenUy 

 and described one of our ash-collecting 

 politicians "as the greatest statesman 

 ever produced." We suggest to him that 

 word "devised" as an improvement. 

 Oh yes Mr. Editor. I know what you 

 think and I frankly own up to being 

 a slave to grovelling accuracy." 



Fifteen vears ago today this is what 

 Edwin Lonsdale said about Dreer s. 



•■Evi-rvthing .ittf-mptea there is done with 

 •1 <lH(in te oblect in view ; no triHmg experl- 

 niensl.eing: indulged in. No unoccup ed 

 "paceV.ire'^to be%een nor any wasted 

 ciicrL-y on the unlikely or unprohtable. 



And vet for all that 'Gene has the 

 ;mdacitv to say that he is no slave to 

 ■ revelling accuracy or hair-splitting. 

 The greatest hair splitter on earth 

 when it comes to a question of mak- 

 ing money. 



Harry A. Bunyard was making the 

 w-elkin ring with — 



■•Galax, galix, galox! 



We have the goods if ^ 



You've got the rocks!" 



and Harry, thank the Lord, is still 



in evidence, adding bright cheer to 



a gloomv world. 



And our good friend Harry Bayers- 

 dorfer was also young and frisky in 

 those days. This is the way he was 

 capering at us: 



"When your stocks look tired and dusty 

 And the baskets old and rusty 

 Let us tell you what to do— 



.Tust -write to Bayersdorter 

 Ask hlra what he has to offer 

 I'd do It it I were you." 



The old scout is still on deck and 

 while he may girth a little and stick 

 to plain prose he still leads the pro- 

 cession in his line. 



Fifteen vears ago today Sam Pen- 

 nock fell a victim to the golf fever 

 and there was much grim head shak- 

 ing among the ancients around the 

 good old Quaker settlement of Lans- 

 downe. 



The market report on glass was 

 that it was "still going up." Of 

 course. It always is. It is now. 

 Fifteen vears makes a big difference 

 to some 'things but never to glass. It s 

 like the poor boys' song on the Eng- 

 lish treadmill. 



.Always going up! . 



And never coming down again. . 



So you had better hurry up and 



buy now. G. C. W. 



Emulate the pin. Be sharp and to 

 the point, but with head enough to 

 keep you from going too far. 



—Boston Traveler. 



