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HORTICULTUEE 



July 20, 1912 



During Recess* 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston. 



The grand annual picnic of the club 

 will be held at Cunningham Park, 

 East Milton, on Wednesday, July 24, 

 1912. 



To reach picnic grounds take Mil- 

 ton and Ashmont cars at Park street 

 or Dudley street, then at Milton Lower 

 Mills take East Milton car to entrance 

 to park. Via steam cars take train 

 at South Station for East Milton. It 

 Is then about 10 minutes' walk, or you 

 can take car for Milton Lower Mills, 

 getting off at park entrance. 



The prizes consist of a selection of 

 valuable and useful articles donated 

 by our many friends. 



We hope every member of the club 

 will be present with wives and fami- 

 lies and make it your business to in- 

 vite your friends, whether in the gar- 

 den, greenhouse, store wholesale or 

 retail, seedsman; in fact, everybody 

 connected with the profession in any 

 way help make this a banner picnic. 

 We have the grounds and the prizes. 

 All we want is the crowd. Do your 

 part. 



1. Baseball, Commercial vs. Private 

 Gardeners. Limited to Ave Innings. Cap- 

 tains, M. F. Ruane, R. W. Curtis. Prizes 

 by Gardeners' and Florists' Club. 



2. Baseball, boys 16 and under. Limited 

 to five innings. Prizes by R. & J. Far- 

 quhar & Co. 



3. Quoit match, Commercial vs. Private 

 Gardeners. Captains, D. Ilitfe, Kenneth 

 Finlayson. Prizes by Wilfrid Wheeler. 



4. Lawn tennis for ladles. Prizes by 

 Jos. Breck & Sons Co. 



5. 50 yard race for boys under 8. Prizes 

 by Wm. Patterson. 



6. 100 yard race for single ladies. Prizes 

 by Boston Plate Glass Co. and James 

 Wheeler. 



7. 50 yard race for girls under 8. 

 Prizes by Fottler, Fiske, Rawson Co. 



8. Time race, open to memliers, their 

 wives and children. Prizes by H. M. Rob- 

 inson & Co. and Wm. Patterson. 



9. Egg and spoon race for married la- 

 dies. Prizes by Peun, the Florist, and 

 Wm. Downs. 



10. Potato race for boys under 15. 

 Prizes by W. N. Craig and Eber Holmes. 



11. Flag race for girls under 15. Prizes 

 by Peter Fisher and A. Cartwright. 



12. High Jump. Prizes by Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co. 



13. Fat men's race. Prizes, A. H. Hews 

 Co. 



14. Baseball. Married vs. Single Ladies. 

 Prizes by F. E. Palmer and W. R. Fischer. 



15. Putting shot. Prizes, Braman & 

 Dow. 



16. 50 yard race for boys and girls un- 

 der 6. Prizes by Mrs. W. W. Edgar. 



17. Needle threading race for ladies over 

 50. 35 yards. Prizes by W. W. Edgar Co. 



18. 100 yard race for men. Prizes by 

 McHutchison & Co. 



19. Sack race for boys under 16. Prizes 

 by McHutchison & Co. 



20. 50 yard race for girls under 12. 

 Prizes by Alex. Montgomery. 



21. Three-legged race for men. Prizes 

 by Thos. Westwood. 



22. 50 yard race for boys under 12. 

 Prizes by Wm. Collins. 



23. Three-legged race for boys under 18. 

 Prizes by M. A. Patten. 



24. Sack race for men. Prizes by Thos. 

 J. Grey Co. 



25. Obstacle race. Prizes by H. W. 

 Vose. 



26. Tug-ot-war. Commercial vs. Private 

 Gardeners. Captains, James W^heeler, John 

 L. Smith. Prizes by William Sim. 



Ringmaster, Wm. J. Kennedy; Starter, 

 Peter Miller; Clerk, Wm, N. Craig. 



Judges: Thomas H. Westwood, Wm. J. 

 Stewart, M. A. Patten, Duncan Finlayson, 

 Geo. Anderson, Robert Cameron, Eber 

 Holmes, A. Christeusen. 



Umpires: James L. Miller, Tom West- 

 wood. 



Committee: Peter M. Miller, Wm. Sim. 

 Wm. J, Patterson, Herman H. Bartsch. 



Chairman of entertainiuent committee: 

 Wm. R. Nicholson. 



The following members have sub- 

 scribed to the picnic fund: A. 

 Christensen, Robert Cameron, Neil 

 Boyle, S. J. Goddard, D. lliffe and 

 others too late to wait for the printer 



Please remember the following 

 points: 



1. Athletic events are open to members, 

 their wives and families only. 



2. Games will commence at 10 a. m. 

 sharp. 



3. Any event on the list may be called 

 at any time. 



4. No contestant can win over two first 

 prizes, team events not, however, included. 



5. Lady tennis players will please bring 

 tennis rackets and balls. 



6. Ball players are invited to bring bats, 

 balls, gloves and masks with them. 



7. There will be an Intermission for 

 luncheon at 12.30 o'clock. Members and 

 friends should bring lunches with them; 

 but tea, coffee, spring water and sand- 

 wiches will be provided. 



S. There will be as usual something 

 special provided for the ladies and children. 



0. Contestants will please remember 

 that racing costumes or spiked shoes will 

 not be tolerated, and auyoue wearing them 

 will be barred out from all sporting events. 



10. Come early, bring the whole family, 

 and be prepared to spend a long and en- 

 joyable day. 



11. A cordial Invitation is extended to 

 non-members to be present; they will be 

 made very welcome. 



W. N. CRAIG, Secretary. 

 THOS. PEGLER, President. 



Lancaster County Florists' Club 

 Picnic. 



With an ideal day the outing was 

 a glorious success. 



First came the beautiful ride from 

 Lancaster to Pequea. At Pequea the 

 first greeting was a well-filled picnic 

 table to which ample justice was done, 

 after which the time was spent sight- 

 seeing. At 4.30 a substantial dinner 

 was served, after which adjournment 

 was made to the dancing pavilion, 

 where games were indulged in. 



Paul Weaver, son of Elmer Weaver, 

 won first In the peanut running match 

 and Robert Kohr, son of Frank Kohr, 

 won second prize. In the running 

 race Frances Moore won the prize 

 for girls, Mrs. Albert M. Herr the first 

 in women's race and Mrs. Brandt of 

 York second. In the men's running 

 race Wm. Beamenderfer won first and 

 Harry Rohrer, treasurer of the club, 

 second. In the general peanut scram- 

 ble open to everybody. Miss Weaver 

 won first. After the games we danced 

 and if the florists of the United States 

 had known it there would not have 

 been room in the galleries for the on- 

 lookers. Our Philadelphia and Ches- 

 ter County guests distinguislied them- 

 selves on the dancing floor and every- 

 one had a good time until about an 

 hour before our car was due for the 

 return trip and then down came the 

 welcome rain just late enough not to 

 spoil the tun and in time to cool it 

 off for the trip home. 



The committee of arrangements 

 were Frank Kohr, Elmer Weaver, Wil- 

 lis Girvin, Edw. F. Law, Lemon Lan- 

 dis and Albert M. Herr. From Ches- 

 ter County we had; Wm. Swayne, C. 

 P. Barnard, E. C. Marshall, James 

 Brown, Jr., J. M. Palmer; from Phila- 

 delphia, S. S. Pennock, Charles E. 

 Meehan and George C. Watson; from 

 York, Mr. and Mrs. Brandt; from 

 Shiremanstown, Mr. and Mrs. John 

 P. Rupp. 



ALBERT M. HERR. 



Below, George C. Watson relates 

 some of his sensations on this occa- 

 sion ; 



In our innocence we thought it was 

 the peacefi'l Conestoga we were rac- 



ing around. Instead, it was the Pe- 

 quea — another tributary of the Sus- 

 quehanna. It was a blood-curdling 

 trolley ride; in any case, you could 

 look down a mile deep among the tree 

 tops, and imagine what would happen 

 if a cog slipped! We had several 

 thousand kinds of heart throbs before 

 we finally got to the end of the jour- 

 ney. 



Lancaster County, however, is a 

 peaceful and picturesque paradise. 

 With all our heart we wished we had 

 been among the pioneer farmers of 

 Lancaster County two hundred years 

 ago and pre-empted our share of that 

 land. Pequea is a miniature Atlantic 

 City in its way for Central Pennsyl- 

 vania. They have cottages and bun- 

 galows, terraced all along the hillsides 

 above the river and more being built 

 every minute. Boating and bathing 

 without limit. On the other hand, 

 back in the woods were copperheads 

 and any amount of botanical resources. 



To tliis outing came the trade and 

 all the old settlers for fifty miles 

 around, in autos, in wagons, on horse- 

 back and by trolley until we had a 

 real old convention. It made one 

 imagine he was again in old Scotland 

 where every parish has about a dozen 

 different and distinct and only real 

 religions! The poke bonnets looked 

 good to me. We saw no clergymen, 

 but there were lots of shady lanes. 

 So wags the world! May the goddess 

 of good fortune still continue to watch 

 over winsome Lancaster. 



GEORGE C. WATSON. 



Cook County Florists. 



The Cook County Florists' Associa- 

 tion had a successful initial picnic 

 July 14th. The grove was visited by 

 about 400 florists and their friends 

 during the afternoon and evening and 

 the program was carried out without 

 anything to seriously mar the event. 

 A collision between the runners in 

 one of the races makes John Zech a 

 temporary sufferer, but like a good 

 sportsman, he does not complain. The 

 weather was ideal. All expenses were 

 met and a neat sum left over. 



Winners in the races were as fol- 

 lows: 



Girls— 6 years and under, R. Keimel, 

 Alice Henderson; 10 years and under, 

 Esther Keimel. .\lice Henderson; 15 years 

 and under, L. Koropp, M. Koropp. 



P.oys — 6 years and under, Fred Otten- 

 It.ncker, R, Koropp; 10 years and under, M. 

 I'aliusky, D. Driscoll; 15 years and under, 

 J. Lipp, R. Wittey. 



Single ladies — Miss Ambler, Miss W. 

 Jacobs. 



Married ladies — Mrs. Olsen, Mrs. Plank. 



Fat men — Fi'ank Potocka, M. Mayer. 



l.'50-yard dash — L. Koropp. Jr., W. Pagels. 



Sack race — L. Koropp, Jr., J. Jacobs. 



Pie eating contest — L. Koropp, Jr., J. 

 .la fobs. 



A Philadelphia Spasm. 

 Jno. C. Gracey is at Ocean City suf- 

 fering from a severe attack of tinker- 

 itis. This fearsome malady attacks 

 both the head and the hand; if it stays 

 on the bolt you are nutty; and it you 

 bolt the job, you are nutty. Mr. 

 Gracey is at Ocean City under the 

 care of Charles E. Meehan — who in 

 order to calm the patient has placed a 

 motor boat at his service, and by ju- 

 dicious intervention tor rest and recu- 

 peration, this safety valve tor sur- 

 charged emotions is expected to secure 

 a temporary if not permanent cure. 

 Have arranged for hourly wire re- 

 ports. Alleged joke registered and 

 copyrighted by Samuel S. Pennock. 



G. C. W. 



