First Prize Miniature Garden 
International Flower Show, New York. 
Model by Mr. Charles Willing, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. First Prize. 
Scale, J inch to a foot. 
Tray, 3 feet square. 
Design, Adaptation from the Villa Gam- 
beraia, Florence, Italy. 
Oblong formal Italian garden with four 
well balanced water basins and central foun- 
tain as main feature. Clipped Cypress hedge. 
Grade on side hill and treatment of wall es- 
pecially interesting. The Garden Club of 
America is amazed and astonished at the 
talent of its own members. This is the high 
water mark of model making. The oblong 
water garden is a sunny parterre laid out with 
pools instead of flower beds and terminating 
in a tall clipped screen of Yew through which 
arches are cut. Classic little statues cut from 
hard Ivory soap stood out at regular intervals 
against the Yew background. Infinitesimal 
flower pots of red plasticine held bluish-green 
Aloes. Perfection in every minutest detail 
of finish characterized this exhibit. 
