SBKrKMBEB H, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



Members cA the Kansas City Florists' Club on their Annual Picnic, at Chandler's Grove, August 26, I9I4. 



KANSAS CITY CLUB'S PICNIC. 



At noon Wednesday, August 26, all 

 the florists of Kansas City, save a few 

 retailers, closed, their doors, to take 

 pa it iij the ^st annual outing of the 

 Kansas City Florists' Club, which was 

 held at the nurseries of M. E. Chan- 

 dler. Special street cars, decorated 

 with bannors, carried the party to Kin- 

 Qey Heights. Just as the cars started, 

 bouquets of roses, donated by the George 

 M. Kellogg Flower & Plant Co., Henry 

 Kiisik & Co. and T. J. Noll & Co., were 

 thrown into the crowd of people watch- 

 ing the departure, causing much excite- 

 ment. From Kinney Heights automo- 

 biles and trucks carried the florists out 

 to the grounds of M. E. Chandler. 



The program for the afternoon was 

 in the hands of G. K. Parker and Fred 

 Fromholdt, respectively president and 

 vice-president of the Geo. M. Kellogg 

 Flower & Plant Co. Dick Parker, sales- 

 man for Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago, 

 arrived in time to put up some good 

 prizes and act as judge in the contests. 

 The sports commenced with a baseball 

 game between the Has-beens and Will- 

 bes, which ended with the score 6 to 6 

 at the end of the fourth inning. 



Through the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Chandler, a bountiful table was spread, 

 to which the 150 guests present sat 

 down with a will. After the awarding 

 of about $100 worth of prizes, votes of 

 thanks were tendered Mr. and Mrs. 

 Chandler for their hospitality, Dick 

 Parker for his work and prizes, the 

 committee of the club for its success- 

 ful efforts, and the various firms for 

 their contributions of prizes. G. Hol- 

 singer, of Holsinger Bros., Merriam, 

 Kan., invited the club to his firm's 

 nurseries for the annual picnic next 

 year. The evening closed with music 

 by Field's orchestra and Mr. Chandler's 

 victrola, and dancing, William Bieder- 

 maun calling the old square dances in 

 fine style. The next day those who did 

 not go were sorer than those who en- 

 tered the sack race, and next year a 

 reeord outing is assured. Among the 

 out-of-town guests were Dick Parker, 

 of Chicago; P. G. Brackenbury, of 

 Pleasant Hill, Mo., and Mrs. Hugh 

 ^ealos, of Birmingham, Ala. 



The prize-winners were as follows: 



■Mi'ri and women's horseshoe pitching contest — 

 "fs 0. E. Thomas and Mr. Coffee, first; Mrs. 

 X: \^- Parker and A. E. Adams, second; Miss 

 ^'aiivs Clemens and Fred Fromholdt, third. 



»»' M and women's sack race — Miss D. Bleder 

 waiiii and Mr. Wilson, first; Miss L. Bledermann 

 •no (.eorge Holsinger, second; Mrs. G. K. Parker 



m'.'- A-.Hunting. third 



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"and women's watermelon eating contest — 



Mu !''"=«' V. Cope and Charles Robinson, flrsti 

 Kc(i 1 ■ ^'^<l*'''nann and Wm. Bledermann, Jr.. 



„*l|'i and women's free-for all race — Miss Hazel 

 „■ '"Pe and George Holsinger, first; Miss R. S. 

 g^f Its and W. J. Barnes. Jr., second; Mlsg D. 



'J "rmann and Mr. Warling, third. 

 Up'"; *«"1 women's baseball throwing contest— 



'" ". Adame and Mr. Jarrett, first: Mrs. C. E 



Thomas and Mr. Coffee, second; Mrs. J. U. Boyd 

 and Mr. Wilson, third; Miss Hazel V. Cope and 

 W. J. Barnes, Jr., fourth. 



Fat men's race — Mr. Wilson, first; G. Hol- 

 singer, second; Fred Fromholdt, third; J. Hol- 

 singer, fourth. 



Ladies' peanut race — Miss OMdie Flyun. first; 

 Miss R. S. Barnes, second; Miss D. Bledaiwaan. 

 third. ' ." ■ 



Boys' and girls' race — Miss Haeel Cope and 

 George Couch, first . 



Men's flat-foot Jumping fent<fiBt — Russell Hardy, 

 first; J. W. Barnes, second; Mr. Jarrett. third. 



Men's tree-climbing contest — Cbas.- Redmon, 

 first; Wm. Bledermann, Jr., second. 



Men and women's tug-of-war, twenty on each 

 side — Captains Fred FVomholdt and Mrs. W. J. 

 Barnes. 



BEATTLEBOBO, VT. 



Business has been quiet for the latrt 

 few weeks, principally funeral work, 

 but the season that closed with the 

 completion of the bedding work was 

 an excellent one, the call for plants 

 and cut flowers showing a steady in- 

 crease. There are two good florists 

 here and none for a considerable dis- 

 tance in three directions, so that their 

 trade covers a rather wide if thinly 

 populated territory. 



C. E. Allen has been in the florists' 

 business here since 1868, having start- 

 ed when he was only 17 years of age. 

 During his forty-six years at it Mr. 

 Allen has seen many changes in the 

 flower trade. In his early years there 

 were few florists in the west and he 

 did a considerable wholesale business 

 with those starting and a mailing plant 

 trade all over the country. As florists 

 multiplied through the west his distant 

 trade fell off, but the local and Green 

 Mountain trade increased, so that he 

 is today doing more business than ever. 

 About half of his glass is new and 

 practically the whole place is equipped 

 with one-piece concrete benches. Con- 

 crete is one of Mr. Allen's ppeciaUies. 



On his property of thirty acres he has 

 a fine gravel bank and some time ago 

 he began the manufacture of concrete 

 blocks for building purposes. He has a 

 building on the place in which a force 

 of men work constahtly at this and 

 many of the newer houses in the town 

 are of his handiwork. Incidentally, he 

 makes it a practice to put up one 

 dwelling each year for sale or rent. 

 In the greenhouses there is the usual 

 great variety of stock usually found on 

 a place that caters to a general local 

 trade. 



Carl Hopkins, who is town clerk, 

 started in the business only a few years 

 ago. His greenhouses are so far from 

 the center of trade that a year or so 

 ago he opened a store on the main 

 business street, which has helped him 

 materially, many people buying flowers 

 who never did when they had to go to 

 the greenhouses for them. . Mr. Hop 

 kins has the assistance of his wife and 

 daughters. 



A steady increase in business is ex 

 pected, as the town is rich and growing 

 rapidly for New England. The popula 

 tion now is about 9,000 and the banks 

 carry about $13,000,000 of deposits, 

 a record not frequently duplicateil 

 throughout the entire United States. 



AT LANCASTER CLUB'S OUTING. 



When President B. F. Barr enter 

 tained the members of the Lancaster 

 County Florists' Club at his home. 

 Avondale farm, August 13, H. K. Roh- 

 rer used his kodak to secure reminders 

 of that enjoyable day and, in the view 

 shown herewith, snapped a number of 

 the members of the club in the midst 

 of the outing. 



Lancaster County FlorisU Visit B. F. Barr, Avondale Farm. 



