A member of the Easthampton Club had made for the occasion East- 
a shallow pottery Bird Bath glazed a greenish blue; it stood on an old hampton 
iron stand under what should have been a pink Rose tree, but which Club 
arrived at the ninth hour a bright cherry red, which "upset the apple 
cart" as there was no other to be had at that late date. The bath 
was set in the center of the space with a box-bordered bath of broken 
flat stones leading to it. Forget-me-nots were planted in the shade 
of the Cedar background, and pink English Daisies and Primroses 
were used toward the front. 
The fifth bath was so exquisitely beautiful in its color scheme, Philips- 
uneven contours, distribution of Hght and shade, that even the stern town 
heart of Audubon forgave the Httle moss-covered bath being on the Club 
ground. It stood on a sHght rise in the center against its Cedars, 
while two small Crabs (Pyrus floribunda) arched sHghtly over it. 
Groups of Heliborus Niger, cleverly planted among real country 
rocks, were the crowning touch. A few snowdrops looked much at 
home, and some wood plants, such as real wood moss. Partridge- 
berry and Pipsissewa were used in the foreground. The pink of the 
Crab blossoms was carried down most charmingly by clusters of 
pink Primula Seboldi (hardy), planted directly back of the bath. It 
was, in conception, so charmingly carried out that one came back to 
it again and again for its message of spring woodland. Indeed, a 
little Indigo bird, in the foreground, seemed to enjoy it as much as 
we; It received the Horticultural Society's third prize — a Bronze 
Medal. 
The amount of intricate labor put into the building of the natur- Short 
alistic waterfall and stream of the Short Hills exhibit, would have Hills 
fazed anybody but that energetic club. Cedars backed a sort of Club 
irregular cUff or rocky ledge, at the right of which was a shallow 
basin in the rock sheltered and half hidden among the Cedar branches; 
here the smaller woodbirds could find their bathing depth. A deli- 
cious trickling waterfall fell from a well modelled spout into the pool 
two feet below. On the left side a figure of Narcissus was seated on 
the ledge, bending over to admire his features in the lower pool. 
Miss Angelica Church modelled this figure for her club, at very short 
notice, and it was said that she wished it could have been cast in 
bronze rather than in the cream plaster which was an intense contrast 
to the low tone of the woodland scheme. In the foreground of moss 
and birch logs and fern clustered tiny white Iris Pumilla, Tuhp 
Clusiana, Snowdrops and choice, frail, fairy-hke plants. Robins were 
bathing in the deeper pool. The planting of drooping Maiden-hair 
Fern around the waterfall was particularly well done and the model- 
ing and coloring of the rock work technically fine. It received the 
Horticultural Society's second prize, a silver medal, and later, the 
Special Gold Medal offered by Mr. Schling. 
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