July 27, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



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DURING RECESS 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton. 



The annual outing of this cluh held 

 at Cunningham Park, East Milton, 

 Mass., was the best attended and alto- 

 gether one of the most enjoyable in 

 the club's history. The grounds which 

 were the most convenient and well- 

 adapted of any the club has had are 

 conducted under a bequest for the use 

 of the people of Milton and were had 

 without cost through the kindness of 

 the superintendent and trustees. The 

 officials who had charge of the various 

 features did their work with the 

 promptitude and efficiency of veterans 

 and the number of contestants in the 

 different games was unusually large. 



Kirls under 12, Mai'y Iliffe, Susie Rogers. 

 Tliree-legged face for men. Palmer and 

 Westwood, Collins and Prae. Race lor boys 

 under 12. P. Kolaud, Lawrence Hollings- 

 worth. Three-legged race for boys, West- 

 nood and Iliffe, Hargraves and Prae. SacU 

 i-ace for men. W. J. Collins, C. Prae. Ob- 

 stacle race. 'Tom Westwood. Walter West- 

 wood. 



St. Louis Florist Club Picnic. 



The much talked of annual picnic 

 given by the Florist Club for florists 

 and their families took place on July 

 7th at Preister's Park. The attend- 

 ance was not quite so large as in for- 

 mer years when the picnic was held 

 on this side of the river, still some 

 300 were in attendance and enjoyed 

 the day greatly. 



Frank Weber, chairman of the trus- 

 tees, worked hard all day and was 



Buffalo Florists' Club Outing. 

 On Wednesday last the Buffalo Flor- 

 ists' Club held their annual affair, and 

 were certainly treated with an ideal 

 day, which members with their fami- 

 lies, friends and fellow-florists fully 

 enjoyed. Again Bedell House, Grand 

 Island, was selected by the able com- 

 mittee and they had in store a treat 

 for all. No better program of sports 

 was ever arranged in previous years, 

 and prizes worth making an effort for 

 were awarded. The sports commenced 

 on arrival, and as usual the ball game 

 was first on the program — East Sides 

 vs. West Sides. On account of time 

 limit only fine innings were played 

 and the East Siders wou 12 to 10. 

 Judge Neubeck handled the indicator 



several of the races having to be run 

 in three or more heats. In the base- 

 ball game the Private Gardeners un- 

 der Capt. R. W. Curtis whipped the 

 Commercial men under Capt. M. F. 

 Ruane by a score of 7 to 1. In the 

 tug-of-war the Private Gardeners un- 

 der Capt. J. L. Smith again put it all 

 over the Commercial men under Capt. 

 Jas. Wheeler. The results in the other 

 events are given below. The greatest 

 amount of amusement was caused by 

 the obstacle race, in which many comi- 

 cal situations were evolved: 



Base ball for boys, White Sox, Capt. 

 Palmer, 11; Red Sox. Capt. Phil Roland. 5. 

 Quoit match. Private Gardeners, under Capt. 

 Kenneth Finlayson, 5; Commercials, under 

 Capt. D. Iliffe, 1. Lawn tennis for ladies, 

 Miss Westwood, Miss Palmer. Race for 

 boys under S, Andrew Rogers, Jas. R. 

 Doyle. 100-yard race for single ladies, 

 Edith IlltEe, Wilhelmina Prae. Race for 

 girls under 8, Mary Flood, Margaret Du- 

 guld. Time race, Mrs. Eisenhart. Egg and 

 spoon race, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Wood. Potato 

 race for boys, Philip Roland, Carl Prae. 

 Flag race for girls, Margaret Iliffe, Kdith 

 Harbison. High .iump, F. Palmer, W. J. 

 Collins. Fat men's race. Prank Edgar, 

 James Wheeler with D. Iliffe close at his 

 heels. Base ball, married vs. single l.idies, 

 won by the single ladies 13 to 12. Putting 

 shot, W. J. Collins. H. Prae. Race for 

 boys and girls under 6, Arthur Rollers, 

 Jennie Brown. Needle threading race for 

 ladies over 50, Mrs. Fred Palmer, Mrs. 

 Larry. lfX)-yard race for men, Henry Prae, 

 Wm. Iliffe. Sack race for boys, Wm. West- 

 wood, Lawrence Hollingsworth. Race for 



Buffalo Florists' Cub at Grand Island 



ably assisted by Messrs. Guy, Young 

 and Ossick. The baseball game be- 

 tween the Wholesalers and Retailers 

 was won by the Wholesalers. Other 

 games and the winners were as fol- 

 lows: 



Walking matih, B. H. Pierce, Geo. Mad- 

 son. Young ladies' walking match. Miss 

 I!. Zender of Chicago, Miss C. Rennecke. 

 Little girls' race. Miss Emuuds, Miss Lown. 

 Small boys' race, the Schuster boys, lirst 

 and second. Weight throwing. W. O^le. 

 Frank Sanders. Ladles' ball throwing 

 (Belleville Florists' prize). Miss Under- 

 wood, Mrs. F. Fillmore, Jr. 150-yard race 

 for young men, Frank Sanders, R. Ogle. 

 Egg and spoon race. Mrs. G. Grossart, Mrs. 

 Walter Weber. Novelty race (37 entries), 

 C. Bergestermann. F. W. Bruenig. Novelty 

 race for ladies (Geo. Waldbart prize), Mrs. 

 R. Bremer, Mrs. H. Berning. Seed guess- 

 ing contest, St. Louis Seed Co. prize, jrrs. 

 Schoeule, Miss Becker: Schisler-Corneli 

 Seed Co. prizes. R. Winkler, Miss Muldoon: 

 Schisler Grain Co. prizes. Miss Viola Spir- 

 gel, Mrs. Fillmore, Jr.: Triesley Seed (^o. 

 prizes. Mr. Flanagan, Mrs. Bergestermann. 

 The tug-of-war, always eagerly watched 

 for, was between two teams of ten men on 

 each side, drawn by .Toe Hanser and H. 

 Emunds. The pull lasted for fifteen mun- 

 utes of uninterrupted endeavor and was 

 finally won by .Toe Hauser's team. Prizes, 

 a box of good cigars for the winners and a 

 box of ropes for the losers. 



Cincinnati Outing. 



The annual outing of the Cincinnati 

 florists was held at Coney last Thurs- 

 day. The attendance was very good. 



and he made raw decisions. Slattery 

 had much to say. Kramer, the West 

 Sider, pitched wild and Greiver re- 

 placed him. Bad errors by Walters, 

 and the slow running for bases by 

 Eiss cost them defeat. For the old 

 men's race, a fast bunch were in line 

 ready for the word. The betting was 

 on Hale 3 to 1, but the dark horse, 

 Neubeck won, with Metherell second, 

 and Sommenberg, third. 



The tug-of-war was the hardest pull 

 the greenhouse men have had in some 

 titne. The opponents, the store men, 

 who naturally are light weights, gave 

 them a hard time, and only lost by a 

 small margin, the time being two min- 

 utes. Neubeck was timekeeper and 

 Andy Adams again furnished rope and 

 cheers. 



Other games and winners were as 

 follows: 



Three-legged race, Greiver and Walter, 

 Kinkel and Dobbie. Ladies' race, Miss 

 Jen-ien. Miss Kirchoff, Miss Stroh. Boys' 

 race, Harrison, Domaris, Meyer, Gaskln. 

 Hop. step and jump. Kinkel 35 9-12, Greiver 

 35 8-12. Stunts .35 4-12. Sack race, Jerome, 

 Greiver, Walters. Men's race, Brucker won 

 the sack of flour (guess the position); Slat- 

 tery was also a runner, and J. Priesach of 

 Corfu crossed the line first. John had 

 been in training running for trains on rush 

 orders. 



After the games, all were ordered to 

 the banquet hall, which was beautl- 



