TWO BIG SHOWS THIS MONTH 
T HE clans gather this year for the two big Spring 
Flower Show events in New York and Cleveland, 
and the Editor of The Garden Magazine hopes 
to meet friends and renew acquaintances on both 
occasions. 
1 he big New York flower show, the i ith in the annual series, 
opening in the Grand Central Palace March 17th continuing to 
the 22nd, is in fact the event of wider interest, The Horticultural 
Society of New York and the New York Florists Club are the 
direct sponsors and there is the added cooperation of the 
Garden Club of America and all the affiliated activities this 
implies. 
Last year the Garden Club classes for miniature or model 
gardens and for table decorations, etc., constituted the most 
salient interest to the greater body of amateur gardeners who 
visited the show. This feature is to be greatly developed this 
year and the Garden Club of America exhibits comprise five 
classes. 
The model garden class is designed for a plot 50 x 125 ft. and 
the house model is supplied on a scale of \ in. to the ft. which, of 
course, governs the size of the exhibit. In the second model 
garden class the plot is 125 x 150 ft. These two classes cannot 
fail to be of appealing interest to the great majority of those who 
will visit the show, whose own problems will surely fall into one 
or the other class. 
Prizes are offered for “community planting” i.e. two, three, 
or four houses and gardens planned with reference to each other 
on lots of equal size. Yet another class in planning is to attract 
schools of landscape architecture and entries from some of the 
leading educational institutions are assured. 
In a class for floral decorations the problems are set for a 
living room or hall, and a different color scheme for each day of 
the week, beginning on Monday with dried flowers, Tuesday blue 
or mauve, Wednesday orange and yellow, Thursday rose and 
pink, Friday white and green, Saturday Tulips. 
The American Society of Landscape Architecture is partici¬ 
pating and will contribute plans in demonstration of the com¬ 
munity planting idea; the work being undertaken by Lutrel 
Briggs, N. Chamberlain, A. Fitzhugh, R. Fowler, and A.Tibbitts. 
The stated exhibits in the regular classes will naturally be 
of conventional character. The plants will be on exhibition 
throughout the week; second day, cut Roses, private growers; 
third day, dinner table decorations and cut Roses; fourth day, 
Carnations including dinner table decorations and commercial 
growers’ display of cut Roses; fifth day, Sweet-peas; and final 
day, dinner table decorations with miscellaneous cut flowers. 
The feature garden display to endure the week^always an 
exceptionally spectacular feature—will be an arrangement in 
750 sq. ft., an appropriation of $ 6,000 having been made to cover 
the six exhibits in this class. The total of scheduled classes 
numbers up to 331 and offers ample opportunity for everything 
in season so that the visitors may be assured of a sustained and 
diversified interest. 
T HE Sixth National Flower Show opens in Cleveland, Ohio, 
March 29th-April 6th. This enterprising undertaking of 
the National Flower Show committee of the Society of American 
Florists thus makes its deferred visit to Cleveland and signalizes 
the fruition of concerted effort in this region to establish a large 
flower show of national character. 
With the cooperating assistance of the many well established 
garden clubs of the region, the visitor here may rely upon an 
equally worthy representation of the gardening interests of the 
surrounding territory. The cooperation of well known local 
landscape architects has been secured and the promise is that, in 
this Sixth National Flower Show, Cleveland will set a standard 
of artistic and instructive display that will be memorable. 
ORCHIDS IN MAY 
T HE next widespread exhibition interest of this season cen¬ 
ters in the American Orchid Society’s first exhibition in 
Horticultural Hall, Boston, May 8th to 1 ith, which will assume 
something of an international character, for the chairman of the 
jurors is the well known English orchidist, Mr. Gurney Wilson, 
and by special permits of the Federal Horticultural Board Orchid 
enthusiasts in this country will be afforded an opportunity of 
seeing some of the newer gems and rarities from the European 
Orchid collections which are being brought over for the occasion. 
Of recent years the special efforts of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society have gained enormously in interest and in 
actual achievement through the personal stimulus of the presi¬ 
dent, Mr. A. G. Burrage, and as this gentleman also happens to 
be president of the American Orchid Society it may be confi¬ 
dently assumed that he will be even doubly concerned in carry¬ 
ing forward this first great Orchid Exhibition to a thoroughly 
successful issue. 
A FLOWER SHOW IN A GARDEN 
HE Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (cooperating with 
the leading garden clubs within the working radius of 
Philadelphia, including the Four Counties Garden Club and 
the constituent member clubs of the Garden Club of America), 
will participate in a novel and brilliant gathering June 6th and 
7th. This will be the principal summer meeting of the Penn¬ 
sylvania Horticultural Society and will take the form of an 
outdoor flower show to be laid down in the grounds of the 
very beautiful estate at Haverford, Pa., developed by the late 
Clement A. Griscom. Exhibits will be established in tempo¬ 
rary beds along the walks and about the lawns of what has 
always been a very interesting and well maintained garden, 
Could there be a more appropriate setting? 
National Garden Week, 1924, April 20th—26th. 
Don’t forget that each individual can do something. What is 
your concern? The General Federation of Women s Clubs, Garden 
Clubs, Horticultural Societies, Civic Associations are working 
together for a common cause. Get in touch with your local organisa¬ 
tion, whatever it may be. 
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