BIRTHDAY GREETINGS 
That you're the pet of Father Time 
Must certainly be true! 
To us he hands out wrinkles, 
But he pins a rose on you! 
Tulip Show The Annual Tulip Show of the Garden Club of Michigan presents 
of the a picture rarely equalled. It is held in the ball-room of the Hotel 
Garden Statler in Detroit, a large, high-ceiled room with cream-white walls, 
Club of and on the floor a carpet of dull rose-color, white covered tables 
Michigan stand against the four walls, others run down the room in the centre, — 
with certain round ones in lines for special collections or exhibits. 
The effect of the glowing flowers and all these stands is brilliant in the 
extreme, and since with Mrs. Shipman of New York and Mrs. Hasler 
of the Garden Club of lUinois I had a part this year (on May i8th) in 
judging the classes in artistic arrangement, I beg space in News and 
Views for a word or two about it. In class 23 — "Most artistic vase 
of Tuhps only" — Mrs. Frederick M. Alger's winning arrangement was 
a decorative one. A two-handled vase, classic in form, of warm gray 
marble, was filled with two varieties of Tulips. Moonlight in a 
rounded group above, and falling out into horizontal Hues below this, 
a fine Rembrandt of scarlet and yellow. This, to quote Mrs. Shipman, 
was "courageous arrangement" — both original and effective, 
In class 24 — "Most artistic arrangement of Tulips with other 
flowers" — Mrs. Benjamin Warren was the winner of the first prize. 
It is difficult to do justice to this exhibit. A large round jar of Russian 
copper with straight sides and brightly polished, held a striking 
arrangement of these flowers, — ^Tulips, Bronze Queen, Golden Bronze 
and Aiiis Kennicott; yellow and brown Polyanthus, Scilla campanu- 
lata Excelsior, and a restrained use of young leaves of Grape, young 
Oak and red Maple. 
Mrs. Andrew H. Green, Jr., the winner of the first prize in class 
25 — "Most artistic basket of Tulips only" — showed her blooms in a 
Carolina egg-basket of natural hickory interwoven with rose-dyed 
strands. From either side of the handle. Tulips sprayed forth; 
Clara Butt, Picotee and Lucifer. This simple arrangement was beau- 
tiful in the relations of the flowers to each other and of the whole, to 
its container. 
Class 27 — "Most artistic arrangement of Tulips with other flowers" 
— offered of course great possibilities to competitors. Mrs. John V. 
Redfield took honors here with a long and low rectangular basket of 
neutral color in which the following flowers were delightfully grouped; 
Tulips, — Fairy Queen and Moonlight; Phlox divaricata, yellow 
Tansies and a touch of white Lilac. What a good Spring planting this 
suggests for the border ! 
The perfection of detail with which this exhibition was carried out 
is illustrated by the fact that even the gold-printed ribbons, — the 
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