THE BONNEWITZ GARDENS, VAN WERT, OHIO 
The cup of my enjoyment certainly was full for I realized that my senses 
had not played me false when my hair had tingled at its roots, and my spine 
had been a heat and cold conductor. On the trip home I wrote a story describ¬ 
ing the show, and when I arrived home I had it published, in booklet form, and 
illustrated it with the same picture which had been used in the Philadelphia 
newspaper. This booklet was mailed to every member of the peony society 
whose numbers were larger than the previous year. Again following the 1918 
show in Cleveland, I published a still larger booklet describing that show. 
In 1920 the show was held in Reading, Pennsylvania, and as it was an¬ 
nounced for exactly the right time for jubilee, I again entered it in com¬ 
petition for the prize for the six best blooms, and it again carried off the 
honors, and I sent out a much larger, better illustrated booklet than ever before, 
telling of the show, the winning varieties, and of the friends we had made. 
Each year we hold a peony festival with a beautiful parade of elaborate 
floats followed later in the day by the crowning of Queen Jubilee, surrounded 
by her court of twelve most beautiful maidens, selected from the different 
high schools of our county. 
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