THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



used for flower garden with a small vegetable garden in rear separ- 

 ated by hedge. Fruit and Oak trees. 



Third Prize — Mrs. George Fraser, Morristown Garden Club. 

 Narrow side of house toward the street. The house is of stucco 

 with green roof and blinds. The porch faces the garden. The 

 house is set back, the garage in the front almost even with the 

 house, and a cement wall closing in the distance between the house 

 and garage, shutting out the public completely from the front. 

 On the other side of the house the same kind of a wall which ex- 

 tends around the sides and back. Low hedge across the front, 

 leaving a view from the street to the plot in front of the house. 

 Kitchen on left convenient to clothes yard. Lawn the entire width 

 of lot with a small space reserved for flower garden beautifully 

 planted with perennials. A stone walk leads from the grass plot 

 into the vegetable garden, with a path running across the lot. 

 Fruit trees. 



Highly Commended — Mrs. William A. Lockwood, East Hamp- 

 ton Garden Club. The broad side of house on street. White 

 shingles, gray roof and green blinds. The garage on extreme right 

 back of lot. A road running right to the garage between which 

 are a small yard and a compost heap. The centre of this lot is the 

 flower garden and directly in back, separated by an open rail 

 fence, the vegetable garden. The fruit trees in blossom in this 

 garden are very attractive. A picket fence surrounds the vege- 

 table garden and a hedge the rest of the lot. Kitchen on right- 

 hand rear of house, a clothes yard adjoining. 



THE FLOWER SHOW 



[The following editorial which appeared in the New York 

 Times of March i8, 1921, immediately after the Spring Flower 

 Show, is reprinted for the benefit of our membership.] 



No one could long be a pessimist in the presence of such a 

 splendor of flowers as has filled the Grand Central Palace these 

 last few days. H Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 

 a single lily of the field, what comparison is to be found for the 

 masses of color which have been made to blossom from like root 

 and stalk under human cultivation? Man has been enjoined by 

 the Great Teacher to forget his anxiety about tomorrow and to 



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