being a delicious device of a red rose with rich green leaves boldly 
stenciled on a white painted background. There was some- 
thing so merry about these clever artistic signs, that one found 
oneself involuntarily smiling happily at them as one met them 
at a new turn in the road. 
The enterprising Hostess Club had put out five hundred 
of these charming signs and I'm sure they entranced other Rose 
Show pilgrims as they did us. When we arrived at Bernards- 
ville, I, being one of the amateur judges, had to be kept in bond 
until the show was ready for the judging. So the kind Secretary 
—Mrs. Wheeler, took me to her home and said to me, ''Won't 
you come upstairs to the garden?" This house is built on the 
side of a hill, the garden is off the next floor — and we stepped 
out upon a beautiful garden from the second story. Once 
outside, one saw the plan, terraced alleys with tall clipped cedars 
and hedges, flower borders, lovely arches and steps down to a 
lower alley, and vistas through to the next and beyond to the hills 
Parochial Hall is a delightful place for a Flower Show. 
Arched panels of soft white as a background for tall slender 
branches. Poplar was used with good effect and made one think 
of delicate landscapes by modern French painters. The stage 
was banked with green. In the center fore-ground was a fine old 
Sun-dial. The exhibits on the usual long benches covered with 
the usual and seemingly inevitable green denim. But, oh ! such 
exhibits ! Such a bewildering quantity of roses, such varieties — 
superb roses, gentle roses, climbing roses. Roses, roses of every 
hue. The exhibit in perennials were not so good. I imagine the 
spring frost was responsible for this. But there was some fine 
larkspur. Princeton sent some superb stalks. The children's 
exhibit of wild flowers was so good and of a dearness indescrib- 
able. And never have I seen a more delightful lot of "Artistic 
Arrangements." In every class there was something especially 
lovely, an exquisite old blue and white Chinese bowl, with an ar- 
rangement of lavender candytuft and grey downy leayeB-Stachys 
Lanata — of a simplicity of perfect refinement and balance. 
And another subtle delicate arrangement in a jar of creamy- 
pinky-tan of pale yellow single roses, open and in bud — with 
pale yellow false fox glove and Queen Anne's Lace — and there 
were many others, lovely, original, tasteful, hard to refuse blue 
ribbons to, but alas, there is only one blue ribbon to a class! 
The show opened and the public flocked in, all eager and 
interested. And finally the day came to an end. The show bad 
been a success — the women who had worked so bard for it were 
content. Each exhibiting club had now at least one cup, and 
again the friendly rose signs cheered our homeward way. 
Annie Russell Yorke 
Short Hills Garden Club. 
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