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The attractive exhibit of sweet peas of the IV. Atlee Burpee Company, which included many of their novelties, 

 their latest novelty. King Tut, being prominently featured 



^Irs. F. E. Lewis and of ^Irs. Stuyvesant Fish, Garrison, 

 N. Y. ; the one hundred sprays of one or more varieties, 

 arranged for effect, of Mrs. F. E. Lewis and of Mrs. S. 

 H. Gillespie, Morristown, N. J., were justly admired. 



In the miscellaneous cut flowers, the splendid lilies 

 shown by Mrs. B. G. Work ; the fine stock of Mrs. John 



A. Topping, Greenwich, Conn, (g-ardener, George 

 Hewitt) ; the snapdragons of Mrs. Fercy Chubb, Glen 

 Cove, L. L (gardener, Peter Smith) ; the Acacia of ^Irs. 



B. G. Work; the white freesia of Mrs. Ridley Watts, 

 Morristown, N. J. (gardener, Samuel Golding) ; the ex- 

 cellent yellow callas of Mrs. E. F. Luckenbach, and the 

 splendid white callas of Charles W. McAlpin, Morris- 

 town. N. J. (gardener, William Brow^n) ; the Cypripe- 

 diums of Mrs. Harold L Pratt ; the Wallflowers shown 

 by Mrs. Henry R. Mallory, Port Chester, N. Y. (gar- 

 dener, H. F. Bulpitt) ; tulips by ]\Irs, B. H. Borden and 

 by Mrs. Harold L Pratt ; splendid mignonette by Mrs. 

 Percy Chubb; lilacs, twelve sprays, by Mrs. B. H. Bor- 

 den and Mrs. Harold L Pratt, made up a diversified and 

 interesting exhibit in this class. 



On Wednesday, when roses were used in the dinner 

 table decorations, there were six tables, each set for eight 

 persons. All were tastefully decorated. Ixit the three 

 winners were Mrs. H. AIcK. Twombley, using Ophelias; 

 Mrs. Percy Chubb, using Madame Butterfly ; and Mrs. 

 Edwin Holbrook, Stamford, Conn, (gardener. Jack 

 Willis), using Sunburst. 



On Thursday, carnations were used, and the competi- 

 tion was very close. The winners were Mrs. Nathan 

 Straus, Mamaroneck, N. Y. (gardener, Thomas Aitchi- 

 son) ; Mrs. H. McK. Twombley, and Mrs. Payne Whit- 

 ney. 



On Friday si.x tables \\'ere decorated, sweet peas being 

 the flower used. The decorations all were unusually good, 

 but tlie prizes were awarded to Mrs. Ridley Watts : Mrs. 

 H. McK. Twombley, and Mrs. Payne \\'hitney on close 

 decisions. 



The decorations on Saturday, when miscellaneous 

 flftwers w-ere allowed, called for, and found much artistic 

 ability displayed, both as to color harmony and arrange- 

 ment. The decisions between the six tables were close, 

 but the awards went to Mrs. John Topping, using Del- 

 phiniums, Acacias, and Iris ; IMrs. Nathan Straus, using 

 Acacias, Nemesia, and Streptosolen ; Mrs. Ridley Watts, 

 using larkspurs. Calendulas, poppies, tulips, pansies, 

 ranunculus, and montbretias. 



THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA 



'T'HIS club made interesting and unique exhibits in 

 ■^ several classes. These embraced : "Artistic arrange- 

 ments of flowers suitable for a living room, two by 

 three feet, allowed by each exhibit." There were many 

 exhibits in this class, the pronounced feature of which 

 was extreme simplicity. These exhibits which were 

 in class I in their divisions. A, G and C, were main- 

 tained throughout the week. Those under A covered 

 Monday and Tuesday, pottery and china containers 



being used in which flowers, foliage, berries, shrubs 

 and grasses were allowed ; those under B covered 

 Wednesday and Thursda}', glass containers, flowers 

 and foliage allowed ; and those under C covered Friday 

 and Saturday, metal containers, flow-ers and foliage 

 allowed. 



In Class II Miniature Gardens of exhibitors' original 

 plans, built on a tray two by three feet, were shown 

 and maintained throughout the show. Many very 

 clever plans were exhibited. 



In Class HI which called for "Suburban Plantings", 

 a house and garage being placed on an interior lot 

 with a frontage seventy-five feet and a depth of one 

 hundred fifty feet, ground practically and attractively 

 planted ; model on tray twenty by forty inches. There 

 were an extremely large number of contestants whose 

 very clever exhibits attracted throughout the week 

 a very large number of visitors at the Show and 

 elicited much commendation. 



In Class IV Luncheon Table Decorations were 

 shown in twai divisions, A and B. In both divisions, 

 A, from Monday till Thursday; B, from Thursday 

 through Saturday, five-foot tables set only with four 

 plates, were used ; flowers, foliage and fruit allowed. 

 A combination of simple beauty and of rigid economy 

 was the desideratum in these table decorations, and 

 this was strictly observed in all the large number of 

 exhibits which drew deserved attention by their merits. 



THE COMMERCIAL EXHIBIT 



TT is well that the wise managers of the New York 

 Spring Flower Show have arranged so that the partial 

 recompense to the builders and exhibitors of gardens for 

 their large expenditures of labor, plants, et cetera, and 

 for their craft spirit nianife.sted pro bono publico, is no 

 longer dependent upon awards of money prizes, which 

 perforce always left some of the exhibitors witliout recog- 

 nition. \\ hat comparison, indeed, as a basis of an award 

 could there possibly be between that wondrously con- 

 ceived and constructed Dutch Bulb garden of John 

 Scheepers, Inc. (illustrated on our front cover), beautiful 

 in the chaste simplicity of its array of Darwin tulips and 

 other bulbous flowers, and lovely with its surrounding 

 border of Spring flowering shrubs and trees, and its ivy 

 festooned arches, and the Bobbink and Atkins garden 

 of azaleas with their vivid colors, a perfect gem, remind- 

 ing one emphatically of those palmy days when Belgium's 

 plants were not shut out of the L^nited States, and at the 

 same time demonstrating what our American plant 

 growers can produce. 



Again who could be so audacious as to decide w'hich 

 was the better, the garden of A. N. Pierson, Inc., a rose 

 garden, pure and simple, with low growing rose bushes 

 all abloom, a perfect example of the rose used in under- 

 the-open-sky gardens, a lovely garden tO' linger in and 

 drink in the sweet odor of roses, and the Oriental court 

 of Julius Roehrs Company, a splendid example of the use 

 of exotic plants in open court architecture, an inviting 



