Bashful Giant, salmon yellow, Rosa Nell, deep rose, and Edith Wooster, 
salmon gold, are recommended as all being satisfactory and free bloomer«, 
and I can testify to their beauty and delicacy of form and color and a 
relief from the voluptuousness of the Millionaire type — for if the Dahlia 
has a fault it is its size and over-colorfulness. I should think the growers 
who specialize in the more delicate and exquisite varieties would be doing 
more for horticulture. 
A special prize was awarded for the Miniature House and Garden, made 
and exhibited by Mrs. Casper W. Hacker. (Gardeners of Montgomery and 
Delaware Counties.) It offered a real encouragement to early matrimony, 
showing what can be done with a lot of 72 feet square. This exhibit showed 
a complete house and garage with driveway, flower borders, evergreens and 
shrubbery. Nothing was forgotten from the window boxes, brilliant with 
pink Geraniums, to the doorbell and door hinges, a lantern hung at the 
entrance and the garden tools were at a convenient place near the little 
flower garden, with its bird bath in the centre. 
The School Gardens made their exhibit the last morning of the show, 
Saturday, and brought their treasures in their little baskets all carefully 
labeled, schard, string beans, tomatoes, parsley, garden flowers, etc. They 
were staged on long tables in an adjoining tent; the pathos of this class is 
that they can't all win prizes, but perhaps it is one of the small disappoint- 
ments in child life which go toward character building. 
These Horticultural Society Exhibits have taken the place of the inter- 
club shows indulged in by other cities. 
Sarah H. Bullock. 
Gardeners of Montgomery and Delaware Counties. 
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