Somerset Perfection, from a bird's point of view, was reached in the tall. 
Hills wide and shallow stone Bird Bath, placed a Httle to one side against 
Club its background of tall well-chosen cedars. A feathery Mimosa tree 
Acacia Dealbata, drooped charmingly over the bath, its pale citron 
branches clearly outHned against the dark Conifers. Tall cherry 
and mauve Darwin Tuhps and clumps of intense white perennial 
Candytuft were grouped at the base of the pedestal. Fresh home 
grown sod framed the picture which won for the Somerset Club 
the First Prize of the Horticultural Society — a silver cup. For general 
effect, planting, color harmony, and accessories, it gained a larger 
number of points than the other six. It was a very satisfactory 
award and one could see the trained eye and hand of one of our best 
landscape women in the well-balanced whole. 
There was another class open to Member Clubs of the Garden 
Club of America, for which the Horticultural Society through Mr. 
Newbold, its President, offered a Silver Cup and two Medals for the 
best vase or basket of flowers — not to exceed three feet. As all the 
clubs do not possess greenhouses, we were allowed to buy our flowers 
where necessary. These were staged on one of the long white 
tables in the Gallery running towards the Tea Garden. We will 
describe them in the order that they stood on the tables. Nine 
Clubs entered this contest and they were all in place as the clock 
struck twelve: 
PfflLiPS- Philipstown's arrangement was unique — a study in those soft 
TOWN Club buffs, apricots, ambers and strawcolors, beloved by Garden Clubs 
and found in Isabellena Phlox. The tall cylindrical vase was of soft 
glaze unornamented pottery, in the most unusual shade of Hght 
"ochreous buff" which exactly matched long graceful sprays of 
a rare orchid — the main feature of the arrangement. With this was 
cleverly combined plumy Mimosa, with its pale citron hue and 
gray green leaves, and other choice flowers — all kept in the cream, 
flesh, fawn and pale orange-pink tints which are so difficult to 
obtain. The subtile beauty of this arrangement was lost among the 
brilHant surroundings of a flower show. It did not register, it needed 
a background of black lacquer — but it was a privilege to see it and 
a triumph to have conceived it. 
WiLMiNG- The Garden Club of Wilmington brought their flowers (which 
TON Club they had grown themselves) up the night before, and felt that they 
were not as perfect as when first picked. But to the fellow contest- 
ant's eyes they were very beautiful — ^pale pink Stocks and Jasmina 
Nudiflorum, with a heavenly grouping of mauve Wisteria hanging 
way down the right side of the vase. 
North Coun- A beautiful vase of salmon pink Snapdragons, grown by one of 
TRY Club the members, was the North Country Club's contribution. For 
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