Each vista seemed more desirable than the last, and quite the most 
lovely was toward the end of the program — the reverse of No. 1 — 
the high sky line vista, for not only was the eye taken down through 
varying greens, but was rewarded at the end by an exquisite vignette 
of the lake framed in lace-like locust. 
Louise G. Hubbard, 
Garden Club of Illinois. 
©ablia Eiblbitton 
of tbe Sbort Mills Garoen Club 
The Short Hills Garden Club held its Sixth Annual Dahlia Show 
at the Short Hills Club on Wednesday and Thursday, September 29th 
and 30th. 
In spite of the weather conditions prevailing this season, high 
winds, cold nights and much rain, all most distasteful to dahlias, the 
quality of the flowers was good, and in some cases very fine. 
Heretofore the exhibitors have been confined to club members, but 
this year outsiders were invited, professionals to exhibit and amateurs to 
compete, with very gratifying results. The prizes were ribbons, with 
a cup to accompany the first prize; a cup presented by the club for the 
best single exhibit in the show, and cups given by members for each 
class, also one for the most artistic arrangement of flowers, not neces- 
sarily dahlias. 
Members of the Garden Club of America were invited to luncheon 
on Thursday, and representatives of nearby and even distant clubs, as 
far south as Baltimore, and as far west as Pittsburgh, were present. 
The Garden Club of Short Hills wishes to express its appreciation 
of the interest taken by members of the Garden Club of America in its 
efforts to show the possibilities of the most beautiful of autumn flowers. 
Anne T. Stewart. 
Dablia Show 
of Ubc (Saroen Club of Cinctnuatt 
Mrs. William Cooper Proctor won a prize offered by Mrs. E. 
Lawrence Jones at the Dahlia Show of the Cincinnati Garden Club, 
on September 2 1 st, for the exhibit getting the most blue ribbons. Mrs. 
Samuel H. Taft won another for a basket containing thirty-five named 
varieties and fifteen seedlings. 
The show was held in the pergola at the Zoological Gardens, and 
was one of the most successful enterprises the club has ever undertaken. 
So well fitted is the Zoo's pergola that it will remain the place for the 
open exhibitions of the club. 
