The Garden Club of Summit. 
The Garden Club of Summit, New Jersey, gave its first 
flower show on October 19th, with six Clubs, Morris- 
town, Somerset Hills, Princeton, Short Hills, Rumson and 
Trenton participating. It was all as gay and pretty and 
vivacious as a debutante should be. The decorations were light 
and graceful, panels of treillage with clematis and honeysuckle 
entwined. The tables were covered in apple green. The stage, 
an artistic arrangement in itself, that should have received an 
award, was a delightful bit of woodland, low rocks covered with 
rock fern and other woodsy plants ; a little brook and small bare 
Birches and Cedars, while a Chinese pheasant gave a note of 
beautiful rich color. There was a lovely array of "artistic 
arrangements," the most strikingly beautiful being a bold yet 
subtle composition of branches of Bitter-sweet berries in a tall 
bronze vase; an amethystine jar with Niza Chrysanthemums, 
lavender, pink and yellow in tone, with sprays of Smoke bush, 
leaves of purple and grey and red tones; and an arrangement 
of wine-colored Chrysanthemums with soft scarlet toned leaves 
in a flat red copper dish. 
The classes for perennials, Dahlias, Roses and annuals were 
filled with splendid exhibits. The Chrysanthemums were 
wonderfully beautiful. There were many varieties of exquisite 
ones of artistic form and jewel-like colors — jacinth, topaz, 
amarinth and old coral, endless in charm and beauty and 
refinement. 
There was a children's section, too, which always gives one 
pleasure, for flowers and children belong to each other. The 
first prize was won by a little fellow who did a big basket of 
Cosmos, Dahlias, Marigolds and Oak leaves, which his eager 
little fingers had placed with lightness. There were exhibits too 
of Summit-grown vegetables. 
The Show was really a great success; everything was done 
for it that clever minds and hands could do. There was music, 
a sweet-faced girl in a flowered silk dress of 1860 to take tickets 
— flower-garbed girls to sell things at the booth for the "Lest 
we Forget" committee for whose benefit the show was given, 
and many charming touches. 
If Summit can do this for her first flower show, what may 
we not expect of her in the future? 
Short Hills Garden Club. ANNIE RUSSELL YoRKE. 
George (reading from seedsman's catalogue) : "This mag- 
nificent plant bursts into an avalanche of glorious bloom in 
June, giving the garden the splendor of a billowy, surf -swept 
coast or miles of great rolling snowdrift emblazoned by the 
setting sun." 
Mabel: Oh, George, do let us have a two-penny packet 
of that ! — Punch. 
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