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Second prize: Won by Southampton, L. I., Garden Club, 

 Color scheme, red, white and blue. An oblong runner of dark 

 French blue linen and oblong doilies with finely crochet red and 

 grey edge showed off the quaint Quimper plates, soup bowls and 

 square bowl shaped vase with an open arrangement of blue 

 Spanish Iris, blue Lace-flower, yellow Ranunculus, scarlet 

 Caen Anemones and white Narcissus. 



2%ird prize: Won by Ridgefield Garden Club. Color scheme, 

 pale mauve and violet. Square centerpiece and doilies of heavy 

 Italian linen. Plates and low goblet-shaped vase of sage-green 

 Italian pottery. Most unusual arrangement of light blue 

 Lacefiower, dark Violets and mauve Tulips. 



Washington, Conn., Club and New Canaan, Conn., Club re- 

 ceived V. H. C. The other clubs competing in this class were 

 East Hampton; Lenox, Middletown, Conn., The Weeders of 

 Phila., North Country, L. I., Amateurs Club of Baltimore, 

 Philadelphia Garden Club, Morristown Club, Montgomery and 

 Delaware Counties, Rumson, N. J., Greenwich, Rye, Short 

 Hills, Princeton, and Newport, R. I. 



NOTICE 



The Annual Gladiolus Exhibition of the Horticultural Society 

 will be held in the Museum building of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, on Saturday and Sunday, August 19th and 20th, 1922, 

 from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. 



The schedule has been much enlarged, and prizes are offered 

 in many classes, including several for Garden Clubs, which are 

 especially invited to compete. Copies of the schedule may be 

 had on application to Mrs. George V. Nash, New York Botanical 

 Garden, Bronx Park, New York City, or to the office of the 

 Society, 598 Madison Ave., New York City. 



HARDY HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS 



This group of plants is at the present time favored with a 

 wide measure of popularity, and representatives are to be found 

 in practically every garden today. This is not at all surprisrng 



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