Friday was the Sweet Pea day, but while the private growers The Award 
made an interesting though Hmited exhibition, the commercial men for 
did not make much of a showing. Mrs. Ridley Watts won in the Sweet Peas 
table decorations with a very fine display of Zvolanek's Rose — all the 
competitors but one used pink varieties, which may have simplified 
it for the judges, but certainly made a tame exhibit. In the Vase 
competitions Mrs. H. McK. Twombly won because she had several 
varieties of color, though Mrs. Taylor of Mt. Kisco, who showed 
only pink and white, had rather better flowers. In the Six Vase 
class Mrs. W. R. Cross displayed some truly beautiful flowers of Zvo- 
lanek's Rose, Snowstorm, Yarrawa, Mrs. Zvolanek, Moonstone, and 
Zvolanek's Orange, and she won again in the Mixed Vase of loo 
sprays. John Cook of Tarry town had almost a "walkover," and 
while some of his exhibit were good, his Pink Beauty was not true to 
color or type. H. Manitsch, Rockville Centre, New York, had a 
lovely vase of his seedling Jennie Manitsch, and several sports from 
that variety, as well as some interesting first-year seedHngs. 
The biggest exhibit — loo square feet arranged for effect — brought 
out only one exhibitor, W. Atlee Burpee & Co., but it was a most 
beautiful and illuminating display, before which one stood with 
notebook and pencil. The new variety, Mrs. George W. Kerr, a 
dehcate flamelike salmon, was the pride of the group — there is con- 
solation to those who learned that no seeds were on sale, in the fact 
that the firm has eight acres planted. Another newly-named pea 
was Mrs. Warren G. Harding, an excellent deep cream and pink 
bi-color — Apricot is a rich salmon orange; and Burpee's Orange 
(a cross of Mrs. Kerr) is a deeper color than the parent. Fireflame, 
Silver Blue, White Starr, Cheerful and the Orange won certificates. 
Edward Gillett of Southwick, Massachusetts, accompUshed a Wild 
marvelous feat by making a wild garden full of shyest wood plants Flowers 
right in a city flower show. With many people this was the greatest 
attraction in the Show; it certainly was educational in the extreme. 
At this time of the year it was an exceedingly difficult thing to do. 
The Garden Club of America's Exhibit 
This is the first time our Club has taken part in the New York A Great 
Flower Show, and naturally the clubs which entered for one or both Experi- 
of the competitions were all agog for weeks beforehand. The difficulty ence 
of getting garden material at this time of the year in the city seemed 
insurmountable, but we know the ropes now and are eager to initiate 
other clubs into the joys and sorrows of exhibiting in a real show. 
The consensus of opinion is that we have "learned an awful lot!" 
One club's sod didn't arrive; another's palest pink rose, ordered weeks 
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