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The Garden Club for the Small Town 
(Continued from page C8) 
show possible, and therefore perhaps 
the best with which to start. Given 
a broad, non-windy piazza, a few 
boards and barrels, some dark green 
cambric, five or six dozens of glass 
fruit jars, and the thing is done. The 
gilded ribbons for prizes can readily 
be made at home. And when one 
or two speakers are added too at the 
time of the flowery array, to hold 
forth briefly on the matter of classifi¬ 
cation, naming, and the best uses of 
the flower of the day, the little show 
is sure to become a > r early event to 
many people. 
We have found it best to begin 
with tlie gladiolus in entering upon 
a course of flower shows, but the 
tulip would be a comparatively sim¬ 
ple flower to use in this way, as 
would the sweet pea. Daffodils 
would be somewhat more difficult 
owing to their rather involved classi¬ 
fication. The dahlia, however, af¬ 
fords a magnificent subject for gar¬ 
den club exhibiting. 1 would suggest 
for the very glory of it, though I do 
not know whether or not this has ever 
been done, a show composed ex¬ 
clusively of rambler roses and del¬ 
phiniums. Garlands, festoons of de¬ 
licious little pink roses, ranging from 
those faintly tinged with color to such 
rich hues as are in Excelsa, arranged 
so they seem to start from pots of 
such dwarf ramblers as Ellen Poul- 
,son, and at intervals in the back¬ 
ground sheaves of blue to bluest del¬ 
phiniums ! 
Shows of annuals only should be 
interesting and effective, and I hope 
the time may come when we shall 
have little shows of the finer gera¬ 
niums and dwarf capnas that these 
beautiful and ever-blooming flowers 
may again And place in our good gar¬ 
dening schemes. An autumn show 
comprising both flowers and vege¬ 
tables is often tried and found suc¬ 
cessful. I shall never forget the 
beauty and originality of effect of a 
rich basket at a recent garden club 
show of this type. The occupants of 
this basket were ears of a purplish- 
black corn, delicate green heads of 
lettuce, egg-plant and the purple-blue 
flower of an artichoke. One could 
not fancy a more decorative color 
effect than this. A rose show, too, 
suggests itself as a matter of course. 
And how amusing it would be to try 
the experiment of a show to be com¬ 
posed entirely of blue flowers—the 
varying ideas of that hue would be 
everywhere in evidence and what op¬ 
portunities for enlightening compari¬ 
sons ! 
That the garden club shall keep 
abreast in the general march of gar¬ 
dening knowledge a membership on 
the part of some officer or member 
is advisable in all the societies in this 
country which make a study of spe¬ 
cial plants, such as the American 
Peony Society, the American Rose 
Society and so on. Also member¬ 
ships in large horticultural organiza¬ 
tions are highly desirable, as in this 
way the help of the many is brought 
to the few. 
Democracy of Garden Clubs. 
Now as to the social side of the 
small garden club. In no other de¬ 
partment of social life can such in¬ 
dependence of spirit be shown as 
here. This is due to the fact that 
members and their guests are ab¬ 
sorbed by the fascination of study 
and discussion of gardening in one 
or another of its forms; it matters 
not to them what they shall eat, what 
they shall drink—I had almost added, 
wherewithal they shall be clothed. 
For clubs in a smaller community the 
question of the collation is often and 
naturally, however, a matter for con¬ 
cern. Let the articles limit this as 
they do in the suggested constitu¬ 
tion ; but, more than this, let the in¬ 
dividual hostess occasionally omit the 
pleasant cup of tea. Do not be bound 
by a trifling custom which fades into 
the background where so important 
a matter as garden talk is and should 
be uppermost. 
The time is here when any begin¬ 
ning garden club can map out its 
plans with no difficulty and may start 
on its career with high hopes of suc¬ 
cess. It is common knowledge that 
the very character of the gardening 
interest makes people more ready to 
help than in almost any other form 
of organized work. There is some¬ 
thing in this charming practice of 
working in and on flowers which 
gives us a rare friendship with each 
other. It must be that the very ele¬ 
ments of wind, rain, sun, so freely 
sent us and without which we could 
do nothing, have their leavening in¬ 
fluence upon the spirit, and make one 
generous and self-forgetting in gar¬ 
dening. 
From the Collector’s Note-Rook 
(Continued from page 33) 
Fourth had pewter placed upon 
the table at the Coronation Feast, 
pewter has enjoyed the protection of 
royalty, which fact adds not a little 
to its historic interest. But let the 
collector beware of certain pewter 
plates with arms, portraits, etc., 
stamped in high relief which are now 
and then to be met with, marked 
with a Crowned Rose and N. D. in 
the upper part of the crown, as well 
as a pellet in the center of each petal 
(except in the center of the upper 
one, where is a six-pointed mullet). 
Also let him beware of the marked 
pieces distinguished by a St. George 
or by a St. Michael and a dragon in 
a beaded circle and the letters A. I. 
C., as these are not old pieces but 
appear to have been fabricated as 
“ornamental” antiques. 
Of course there are manv other 
tricks resorted to by the unscrupu¬ 
lous, but the real collector is, gen¬ 
erally speaking, happily possessed 
with that instinct which enables him 
to learn his lessons quickly and in¬ 
expensively ; and there are plenty of 
reputable antique shops wherein gen¬ 
uine things are to be found. As a 
matter of fact, the writer has found 
that even where certain dealers have 
offered spurious objects as genuine, 
it has been done through their igno¬ 
rance rather than through their in¬ 
tent. A dealer will usually be only 
too glad to have a collector who 
knows point out to him mistakes in 
attribution. Most of the small shops 
are run by men who have little time 
for study, and they are far more apt 
to be imposed upon themselves than 
to attempt to iinnose upon their cus- 
(Continued on page 72) 
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