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HORTICULTURE 



August 19, 1911 



During Recess 



Michell Co.'s Outing. 



The Henry F. Michel! Company 

 gave their employes and friends the 

 Brst annual outing ami athletic meet 

 on Saturday, August i-th. 



Four special trolley ears were en- 

 i to convey the party to the E> 

 ergreeii Gardens, at Andalusia, Pa., 

 where the outing was held. Upon ar- 

 riving at the Gardens the official 

 photographs were taken, after which 

 the entire party of over 200 marched 

 to the flagpole to take part in the 

 flag raising, and with uncovered heads 

 sang the National Anthem. 



Athletic contests were next on the 

 list. Young and old men and the 

 women took part. Much amusement 

 was afforded by the various races and 

 other contests. 



To end the sports a baseball game 

 was played by the representative 

 teams of Henry A. Dreer and Henry 

 P. Michell. This was the most excit- 

 ing part of the day's program. The 

 game was nip and tuck up to the 

 seventh inning, when the Michell boys 

 got in their usual batting rally and 

 scored 9 runs in one inning, making 

 it a walk-over of the easiest kind, the 

 final score being 19 to 2. Score by 

 innings as follows: 



1 2 3 4567S9RHE 

 Dreer. 000101000232 



Michell, 1 1 1 2 9 5 19 21 1 

 Umpires: Roth and Bettz. 



After the game refreshments were 

 served on the lawn and needless to 

 say everybody did justice to the eats. 

 Then, to wind up the festivities, the 

 young people enjoyed themselves at 

 the dance which was given in the 

 spacious new building which will be 

 used as a storehouse this fall. 



At eight o'clock the outing was 

 brought to a close and all went home 

 extremely tired and well satisfied that 

 they had had the time of their lives. 



The Michell ball team has one open 

 date this season, which is September 

 4th, and would like to arrange a game 

 with one of the out-of-town seed 

 houses, preferably New York or Bos- 

 ton, for the inter-city seed champion- 

 ship. 



eluding a baseball match between two 

 teams composed .'i association men, 

 1 and 200 yard dashes, 

 putting the lt'> pound shot, hammer 

 throwing, pole vaulting and high 

 jumping and hop-step-and-a-jump con- 

 tests. The committee in charge is 

 Robert Grinrod, George Instone, Sid- 

 Whitney, Oliver Lines and Wil- 

 liam Hooker. 



New York vs. Astoria. 



On Friday evening. Aug. 11, these 



two teams met on Thumm's alleys, 



New York, with the following results, 



Astoria winning all four games: 



Astoria. 



Donaldson 166 151 137 2"9 



Kessler TVS 222 164 161 



Skrond l^s 165 191 158 



W. Manda 166 142 15S 139 



n 167 182 ISO 170 



Total ST.4 862 83" 



New York. 



J. Mnnda 149 154 1"2 133 



94 152 12' 



la 139 126 162 102 



et 153 168 214 160 



Chachvkk 151 202 145 182 



1 fise. 802 829 705 



The Lenox Horticultural Society 

 will hold their annual field day in 

 Tanglewood grove on the shores of 

 Stockbridge Bowl, on Wednesday, 

 August 23. If it is rainy, it will be 

 held the following day. There will be 

 an attractive program of sports in- 



C. S. HARRISON AND CONSERVA- 

 TION. 



Taking the last sentence of Mr. Har- 

 rison's good and wholesome address 

 (p. 1N4. Hort., Aug. 5th I. viz.: "This 

 country is going to be saved. Not 

 only conserved but made more beau- 

 tiful and attractive." I should like to 

 ask Mr. Harrison how he believes this 

 is to be done. It is one thing to have 

 ideals and another thing to put these 

 ideals in force. The minute you start 

 to do the latter you run up against 

 vested interests with the whole of the 

 law and the prophets behind them. 

 What would Mr. Harrison propose as 

 a first step? Would he be willing to 

 have all our laws relating to land 

 owning, land selling or land holding 

 revised and begin on a new deal, 

 namely that fundamentally land is not 

 a salable commodity, any more than 

 the atmosphere or the running waters? 

 All of these natural resources are 

 rentable, but only one (the law) has 

 been heretofore considered a salable 

 commodity. Should we make land 

 rentable only and not salable? Gif- 

 ford Pinchot has the right idea, but 

 what is he going to do if the "grab- 

 alls" with all the bad laws on their side 

 are in power at Washington? This is 

 a tough proposition. I would like to 

 hear from Mr. Harrison as to how we 

 are to get back to the right idea, and 

 how the public are to hold what little 

 they still have without a fight. 

 France, Germany. Great Britain and 

 Seattle are all struggling with this 

 question these many years. Yan- 

 couver, B. C, seems to have managed 

 it. I am glad to read the reverend 

 gentleman's confident slogan, and 

 hope he will respond to this neighbor- 

 ly inquiry. GEORGE C. WATSON, 



PERSONAL. 



Albert Henderson, gardener to Nico- 

 las Hubuyer, Xew Haven, Conn., suc- 

 ceeded Chris Mickelovitz, who recent- 

 ly passed away after a service of 

 twenty-five years at that establish- 

 ment. 



Wm. Robertson, formerly head gar- 

 dener to Levi P. Morton, Rhinebeck- 

 on-Hudson, has accepted a similar po- 

 sition with Wm. Maxwell, Rockville, 

 Conn., and is making plans for a thor- 

 ough rearrangement of the gardens. 



David Lumsden has been promoted 

 by the board of trustees of the Xew 

 Hampshire State Agricultural College 

 from the position of assistant in flori- 

 culture to instructor in floriculture and 

 landscape gardening. Another honor 

 has come to Mr. Lumsden through 

 President R. L. Watts of the Vegeta- 

 ble Growers' Association, who has ap- 

 pointed him vice-president of that 

 body for Xew Hampshire. 



Visitors in Boston: Mr. Bates, of 

 the King Construction Company, Xew 

 York; Walter Dawson. Philadelphia, 



Pa. 



Seed Trade 



A dispatch from Los Angeles, dated 

 Aug. 8th, Indicates that sweet peas 

 are less than halt' a crop. 



Madison, Wis. The L. L. Olds Seed 

 Co. lias filed an amendment increasing 

 its capital from $50,000 to $100,000. 



Grand Junction, Colo. -W, L. Bur- 

 gess, formerly of Forkston, Pa., has 

 purchased the interest of W. Rozzelle 

 in the Grand Junction Seed Co. It is 

 intended to increase facilities and en- 

 large the business. 



DETROIT NOTES. 



George Brown was twice smiled 

 upon by Dame Fortune last week. On 

 Monday he was re-elected president of 

 the local club. A couple of days later 

 a bouncing little boy arrived at his 

 place. 



J. F. Sullivan also is congratulated 

 by the boys, his faithful wife having 

 gone through several operations and 

 arrived at a stage where complete re- 

 covery is certain. We have persuaded 

 him to take the vice-presidency. 



Louis Charvatte, the young hustler, 

 is rejoicing over completing and plant- 

 ing three fine new houses. 



South Framingham, Mass. — The 

 property of Lemoine Bros, has been 

 sold to a syndicate. 



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CELERY PLANTS 



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WARREN SHINN, Nurseryman 



WOODBURY, N. J. 



