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The Rorists' Review 



August 27, 19H. 



Tbree-IegRod race — Sloanc and Carr, first; II- 

 llffe and Collins, second. 

 Sack race— W. J. Collins, first; Curry, second. 



All prize-winners who did not receive 

 their prizes before leaving Boston will 

 kindly send their addresses to W. R. 

 Nicholson, Framingham, Mass., chair- 

 man of the local sports committee, and 

 the prizes will be forwarded to them. 



THE CONVENTION BOWLING. 



Inter-City Team Contest. 



The following were the scores of the 

 six teams that participated in the inter- 

 city 5-man team championship bowling 

 contest: 



m;\v yokk 



I'lnjtr 1st 2(1 "d Totnl 



.lohn IToiialdson UK', 1T^^ 1G4 484 



.1. Manda ]4!> 1S)7 141 487 



.1. Fenricli 22S 181 IHO .'iSft 



Wni. Ducklinm 182 171 174 .".27 



.1. .Mieseni 234 171 l.">l» 564 



Totals !t.-it; 



li[ I'lM.U 



I'lavcr 1st 



C. .Sandlfoiil 2(H; 



.1. Streit 14!t 



l>. J. Scott i:i(i 



15. A. Scott 140 



c. Sclioenlmt l.sit 



Totals :.S2() 



1 IHI.AIIKI.I'III.V 



I'lavcr 1st 



11. Uvtz Kill 



.1. Kiilin 118 



<ici>. ("raig Kil 



VVni. Graham 14(1 



I». T. Connor ICO 



Totals 74." 



IIAI.TI.MOKK 



Player 1st 



T. J. l*crr.v 142 



I. 11. Moss i:i8 



1". (;. Bauer i.u 



II. I.elir i:!o 



C Teybold 177 



Totals 721 



( UK .Vi;(i 



IMaycv 1st 



\V. Wolf Ill 



.•>!. freund ."." 



iJco. A sinus 14."i 



1'. W. I'Ptcrsoii 1.-,."i 



.Jiilin Zccli KM) 



Totals (!2(i 



KuSldN" 



I'laycr 1st 



r.. Iteuter l.">.s 



15. McCluty li.i; 



\V. U. Nlcliolsciii i:!r, 



\V. A. .McAli>iti.' l:!7 



I.'. A. I'circc Kiil 



totals (i4»! »!21 71t; li'S:; 



Men's Individuals. 



I'liiycr .! -nine tnlnl 

 Kniililc .-,s ( 



< 'ooke .■■|S2 



'iraham .-,77 



< tlson .-,.-,!! 



IlaKarlterK .-,."a 



Hrown .",4.-, 



Sliiiffer .",.•'!• 



KasmnsRen .",Ki 



I load .-,K( 



l.ouly .-,04 



Itcst sIiiRlc Biiiiic. I!ii«\vii 2.'!.-> 



.Most strikes, Kiiolilc 17 



Most K|)Mr<s, Sliaffer 21 



Men's Candlepin. 



I'layer :! U.iinc t(.tHl 



W. K. Nlclu.lsdii 27-.' 



i;. \. F'circc 270 



I 'has. SIclKild 27(1 



W. .T. Carnlier 207 



W. II. rarr 2(!7 



llc'~t sinpic i:iiiiic. \V. K. .N'lclidlsdii. . . 



, KiS 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



During tlK' mooting of the Ladios" 

 S. A. F. at Boston, Mrs. Cha.s. K. 

 Critchell, the retiring president, and 

 Mrs. A, M. Horr, treasurer, were each 

 presented witli a cut glass electrolier. 

 Presentations wore made respectively 

 by Mrs. W. W. Kdgar and Mrs. Chas. 

 If. Maynard. 



This year's meeting marks a new 

 ora, memy)ers pleading for the oxton- 

 sion of the society's work into busi- 

 ness awd educational linos, leaving nut 



some of the social work. One way the 

 Ladies' S. A. F. showed its members' 

 good will was in giving $2.5 to the W. 

 R. Smith memorial fund. 



Mrs. Chas. H. Maynard, Sec 'y. 



CATALOGUES AT WASHINGTON. 



In connection with his report as 

 Washington representative of the S. A. 

 F., delivered at the Boston convention 

 last week, Wm. F. Gude presented data 

 supplied by P. L. Bicker, assistant bot- 

 anist of the bureau of plant industry 

 at Washington, in regard to the large 

 collection of catalogues kept by his bu- 

 reau for reference by the trade. Mr. 

 Bicker wrote: 



"The office of economic and system- 

 atic botany, of the bureau of plant in- 

 dustry, maintains a large collection of 

 nursery, seed and flower catalogues, 

 which are used mainly in supplying cor- 

 respondents with information as to 

 where they can obtain certain varieties 

 of plants. The correspondents making 

 such requests are supplied with the 

 names of two or three of the firms 

 nearest to their locality. In order to 

 make the information in these cata- 

 logues more readily available, all names 

 are indexed on cards 4x6 inches, with 

 the names of all firms carrying the 

 variety in stock stamped on the back 



of the cards. There are at present over 

 26,000 varieties included in the index 

 of which the larger part are iii the 

 American nursery trade. 



"The office of horticultural and dq. 

 mological investigations, li^hich is malt, 

 ing a study of the varieties of Ameri- 

 can roses, is constantly using this iide.x 

 in its work, and the federal horricuj. 

 tural board utilizes it extensively as a 

 basis for granting or refusing permits 

 for importing stock from countries 

 which have not approved inspctiou 

 laws. 



"In order to be able to supply sinii- 

 lar information to the trade, the index- 

 ing of foreign catalogues has been be- 

 gun. Catalogues for the current 5 year 

 period are kept in the same room as 

 the index. Those back of the 5 year 

 period are deposited in the main lihrarv 

 of the Department of Agriculture. 



"The collection probably numbers 

 over 50,000 catalogues, a considerable 

 number of them having been issued be- 

 tween 182.5 and 1850. These old cata 

 logues are of great value in tracing the 

 history of the origin of cultivated va 

 rieties. 



"These catalogues constitute a per- 

 manent file, kept in a fireproof build 

 ing, and are available for examination 

 at anv time." 





Joseph Ileacock left Boston for Buf- 

 falo, whence he took a steamer for a 

 lake trip to Duluth, by way of a vaca 

 tion. 



There arc 128 men who claim each 

 to have cast that one deciding vote that 

 sent the 1915 convention to San Fran 

 cisco. 



Knoxville, Tenn., was the best rejuo- 

 sented city in the United States at the 

 Boston convention. With four present 

 it was claimed that there was only one 

 stay-at-home, an attendance of eighty 

 jier cent. Xot even Boston itself did so 

 well. 



The ladies never had a finer enter- 

 tainment than the automobile ride up 

 the north shore to Manchester, witli 

 luncheon there, and, had it not rained, 

 the Friday outing would have eclipsed 

 anything other cities have been able to 

 show their visitors. 



Boston was not a good business con- 

 vention according to most of the ex- 

 hibitors, but at least two salesmen are 

 known to have taken single orders 

 amounting to an even $1,000 each, and 

 one of them reports two others fttr 

 •tSOO and $900, respectively. 



The chances are good that the trade 

 exhibit that will pay best in the long 

 run was the unique display of Penn, tho 

 first exclusive retail cut flower exhibit 

 ever made at a convention. There was 

 not a penny of direct return, but. a lot 

 of florists were impressed with the idea 

 that Penn caters for telegraph orders 

 for Boston deliverv. 



Boston's mayor made a hit with the 

 florists, but Massachusett's governor 

 had them standing on their feet to 

 cheer. They both are strong for flow 

 ers and we are strong for both of tbeni. 



"San Francisco is entitled to the 

 convention, so let's help get it," was 

 the remark of many a man who is as 

 likely to go to San Francisco as to 

 any other convention held west of tin' 

 Hudson. 



' * You present can send the society 

 to California," said W. A. Manda, "it"' 

 who will bring it back? Once there the 

 western voters will keep it on the coas't 

 as long as they like. ' ' No worry. The 

 average city is as glad to see the con 

 vention go as it was anxious to haNO it 

 come. 



There was considerable compiai"' 

 that persons not exhibitors were solicit 

 ing and taking orders in violation c' 

 the rules. The salesman for one ilol 

 land bulb house was distributing a '^•'' 

 cular quoting bulbs at prices so low as 

 to make it a crime as well as a contra 

 vention of the rules, so the su|n"''"' 

 tendent shut down the lid. 



Under the new plan of affiliation, the 

 ])residents of the F. T. D., the Hail A^ 

 sociation and probably one or two othci 

 trade organizations will become dirct^ 

 tors of the .S. A. F. January 1, entitl'"' 

 to all the privileges and recompcus*"" 

 of the other directors. It was unii"'. 

 of the old board to cut them out o' 

 mileage to San Francisco by voting liil"' 

 the March meeting should bo li.d! i" 

 some central citv. 



