THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



plates may designate places; no knives, forks, spoons or candlesticks may 

 be used but other accessories allowed. 



First Prize — Gold Medal. New York Florists' Club. 



Second Prize— Silver Medal. New York Florists' Club. 



Third Prize— Bronze Medal. New York Florists' Club. 



Scale of points by which the exhibit is to be judged: 



Perfection of arrangement 20 



Color harmony 20 



Relation to receptacle 20 



Proportion 20 



Originality 20 



First Prize: Mrs. Henry O. Taylor, President Middletown 

 Garden Club. This table was indeed the most distinctive on the 

 floor. Whole cloth of theatre gauze trimmed with yellow and 

 black wool. The pottery on this consisted of four plates with a 

 yellow and black design done in a long diamond pattern. Glasses 

 of what looked like pewter ware without stems. Small individual 

 fruit plates with the same yellow and black decoration. Centre- 

 piece a dark bowl on a pedestal-like vase filled with fruit. Cal- 

 endulas as decoration. 



Second Prize: Mrs. S. S. Wheeler, President Somerset Hills 

 Garden Club. There was no cloth on this table, as Mrs. Wheeler 

 used Lowestoft china and followed out the custom of the day in 

 which this china was made. Lowestoft china is immensely valu- 

 able and has never been successfully imitated. The last of this 

 was made in 1800, and the china fans, of course, were more than 

 gratified by this lovely table. 



Third Prize: Miss Anne Remsen Webb, East Islip, L. I. South 

 Side Garden Club. 



On this table was beautiful Italian pottery in brilliant blue, 

 with glasses in the shape of horns of plenty. The glasses lifted 

 out of a little stand and were of very deep blue glass. It was 

 very unusual and would have very few imitators. 



Particular mention must be made of one of the tables done by 

 Mrs. Duncan Brent who used for a tablecloth a veil of fine old 

 lace worn by her great-great-grandmother, and upon which were 

 two silver epergnes and plates of silver-tinted glass. Primulas and 

 a few Pussy Willows supporting gray Moss were draped over this 

 silver. The consensus of opinion was that it was "ethereal." The 

 word surely described it as no other can. Great regret was ex- 



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