display of Orchids from an amateur's private collection gave the admiring 
public an opportunity to see something ordinary inaccessible. 
The attendance was remarkable, thousands coming from the city and 
nearby towns to see the much admired Dahlias and to marvel at their 
development in recent years, interest in the show being augmented by a 
systematic publicity campaign. For several weeks before the Show window 
cards announcing the event were placed in leading retail stores side by side 
with a vase containing several immense Dahlias, and the results were most 
gratifying. Owing to a surfeit of advertising in recent years, window 
cards are not looked on with favor, to say the least, by store managers, but 
with the accompanying Dahlias it was a different matter, several leading 
city firms even telephoning a request for cards. In one jeweler's window 
a tall grey silver vase, filled with Mrs. Warner, found a fitting background 
in the lavender -pink velvet mats used to display pearl necklaces and 
precious stones. And the newspapers were the greatest help imaginable. 
Not only did they print cheerfully all the Dahlia notes sent them during 
the summer, but they sent their staff photographers, previous to the Show, 
to take pictures of the Dahlias growing in the gardens, plus the owner 
displaying a large sheaf of flowers or leaning on a hoe. Not only on the 
first day but on all succeeding days of the show came photographers and 
reporters, willing and eager to help by securing all the information possible, 
and it was most gratifying to find that the Press was standing back of 
what it considered not only an important society event but one of great 
educational value. 
Winifred Neville Jones. 
Garden Club of Allegheny County. 
Philipstown. 
The Philipstown Garden Club held their annual Dahlia, Flower and 
Vegetable Show at Garrison, New York, on September 19th. .The 
President 's cup for the twelve best Dahlias was won by Mrs. Richard C. 
Colt with the superb Dahlia Earl William. Mrs. Colt also won the bronze 
medal of the Garden Club op America with 68 points for Dahlia and other 
flowers. There were 33 exhibitors and a greater assortment of Dahlias 
were exhibited than ever before, possibly owing to the use of the schedule 
on page 161 of Mrs. Stout 's book on Dahlias. A change was made in 
the children's section of its annual show. Formerly it has given prizes of 
cash for flower arrangement and vegetables grown by children, hoping by 
this means to interest the public schools. This year it brought prizes 
instead and although this meant more work, the result was highly 
satisfactory. More public school children than ever before entered. During 
the show the prizes were displayed in the children's room and afterwards 
were presented to the winners at the three public schools represented. 
There were two new features in the section which created a good deal of 
interest; one was a collection of stuffed birds loaned by the Brooklyn 
Children 's Museum — a prize given to the child identifying the most ; the 
other a collection of books of pressed flowers which the children had been 
preparing during the summer. These were surprisingly good, several of 
them mounted with skill and neatness and generally with both botanical and 
common names written correctly. 
The committee on arrangement was specially gratified in using the 
Exhibition Books, purchased from the Garden Club op America, as in 
every way they facilitate the work of the Judges. 
