absence of advertisements of any kind, or uncouth vases, made it an 
entrancing, well-planned picture, as well as a show of the first rank. 
The Short Hills Garden Club has set a standard for Flower Shows 
that has hardly been equalled in America — Mrs. Stout's DahHas 
alone are worth a trip from San Francisco. 
But the many smaller Flower Shows are gaining in excellence. The 
Philipstown Club has a unique show in late September in an old 
Colonial House. They made a specialty of interesting the country 
people for miles around. The Rumson Club had a remarkably 
beautiful show in Mrs. Borden's exquisite garden. 
When these shows can be held out of doors, with natural back- 
ground in sunUght and shadow, they are especially lovely; but this is 
very difficult. This year the East Hampton Club placed their frailest 
exhibitions in the quaint Library building to be judged, and later 
moved them out into the court and onto the shady Library lawn, where 
the larger collections of plants had already been shown. This entailed 
much labor but was worth it. 
There is a growing interest in the class of exhibits called "Artistic New Ar- 
Arrangement of Flowers." Indeed, there were so many at one July rangement 
show that they had to be divided into classes: Arrangements for Classes 
Dinner Table. Arrangements for Side Table. Small Arrangement for 
Living Room. Large Arrangement for Living Room. Dainty Ar- 
rangement for Boudoir. SimpHcity should be an important consid- 
eration. 
The following are some of the names of the hardy Chrysanthemums Hardy Chr ys- 
much admired at the Morristown Show: anthemums 
Beatrice (Old gold); Ida Skiff (bronzy amber); Mrs. Albert Phillip 
(deep lavender-pink; early); Mrs. Max Behr (chestnut scarlet; the 
exact shade used for Chrysanthemums on the old Japanese lacquer). 
These are medium sized, rather shaggy, and suitable for borders or 
picking. They can be bought from Chas. N. Totty, Madison, N. J. 
Among the Pink Pom-Pom section, nothing has been found to equal 
Lillian Doty. 
There is a new type of small flowered, single Dahlia, put out by 
Mr. Totty, called "Star DahHa." The pink one, Infield Star, 
looks just like a Japanese Anemone — the same size, and most useful in 
the back of the borders with Michaelmas Daisies, as they come much 
earlier than Cosmos. They will be listed in Totty's Spring catalogue, 
at $i.oo each. 
The double, pink Cosmos is one of the few flowers that I think 
is really improved by its doubhng, and then only for cut flower use. 
The center is so unusually soft and pretty, and it takes away that 
spotty, yellow eye, which does not blend as well with the pink as with 
the white. A. G. H. 
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