NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1908. 
ROSE AND STRAWBERRY SHOW 
The annual rose and strawberry show 
of the North Shore Horticultural society 
was held on ‘Tuesday and Wednesday 
of this week in a large tent on the lawn 
near the Essex County club house. The 
show was open to the public at noon on 
Tuesday and was open until Wednesday 
night. 
‘Though held two weeks earlier than 
that of last year, and though lacking in 
number of exhibits and quantity, the 
show easily made up in the quality of 
the exhibits. “The colorings were vivid 
and varied and the mingled fragrance of 
the roses, sweet peas, and other flowers, 
filled the air. 
One of the most attractive exhibits 
was that of Miss Helen Fitch who won 
both prizes in the class for best vase of 
roses, any variety, airanged for effect. 
Miss Fitch had a strikingly tall vase filled 
with a most charming collection of 
Druschki roses, the finest white rose cul- 
tivated, with red and pink roses _inter- 
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mingling. Her vase of Ulrich Brunners, 
some of which were of the most beanti- 
ful cherry red, won her second prize in 
this class. 
Miss Mary Bartlett (Bernard Reilly, 
gardener) won inthe class for best basket 
of roses, any variety, arranged for effect. 
The roses were of the tea, and hybrid 
perpetual varieties. 
In the special class for roses, best table 
arranged for effect, by ladies only: Mrs. 
George E. Cabot (Patrick Corrigan, 
gardener) won the gold medal offered by 
W. E. Doyle of Boston. The collec- 
tion was a very fine one and was very 
artistically arranged. 
Mrs. James McMillan (F. F. Brasch, 
gardener) won the silver cup offered ne 
R. & J. Farquhar & Co., for the best 
fifty blooms of tea or hybrid tea roses, 
five varieties, ten blooms of each, from 
plants growing in the open ground. Mrs. 
McMillan also won the gold medal 
offered by Samuel eeu & Sons for the 
best table of roses arranged for effect. 
Another exhibit by Mrs. McMillan 
which attracted much attention was the 
table of sweet peas. She had practically 
the only sweet peas shown, outside one 
of the commercial growers. 
‘The most striking exhibits of the show 
were the groups of foliage and flowering 
plants displayed by Mrs. Lester Leland 
(Eric Wetterlow, gardener), and 
William Swan. This was in the special 
class for two silver cups offered by Con- 
Mrs. Leland won. first 
place, as last year, and Wm. Swan, 
second. The groups occupied positions 
in the center of the tent, opposite the 
entrance. 
William Swan had one of the best 
general exhibits of anybody. He won 
the silver cup offered by Mrs. W. B. 
Walker, known as the Highwood Cup, 
to be won twice before becoming the ab- 
solute property of the exhibitor, for the 
best collection of delphiniums. His 
collection of herbaceous perennials also 
won him the silver cup offered by Morley, 
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1/22 MANCHESTER ROAP 
Beverly~ 724 
Manchester- 254 
Lstimated Number of Acres cut, 
Clearedand Readylospray~ \Essex~ 22 ,rotel, 
Cloucester~ 
phe pe iy Beverly~ 929 
imaled Number of Acres \ Manchester- 
infested — Essex ~ oe sae. h 
Gloucester 93 
The accompanying map of the North shore was to have been published last week in connection with the article from 
Col, William D, Sohier on Moth Work along the North Shore, 
