New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-26
SOCIETY AT FLOWER SHOW
First Exhibit of Season at
Stockbridge Praised.
IN Tclegraph 10 No TrIbunc.

Lenox. June 25.-Society went to the
flower show in the Casino in Stock
bridge this afternoon. 1t was the tIrst
show Of the year in the colony and was
greatly praised. Mrs. Bernhard Hotf-
man was in charge of the exhibition. 1t
was judged by Mrs. Banyer Clarkson.
Miss Charlotte Barnes and Thomas
Shields Clarke. The awards will be
posted tomorrow.
Emphasis in the show was laid on
ANNALS. In the collections of self-sown
ANIMALS the best we're shown by Mrs.
Hoffman, Mrs. Walter P. Eaton and
Miss Mary Weyman. In the collections
of ANIMALS started in frames or green
houses the best were shown by Joseph
II. Choate an dMrs. Hoffman.
Miss Mabel Choate had a fine exhibit
ton Of violas. Mrs. J. Woodward Haven
also exhibited in this class.
OF perennials the large exhibitors
were Mrs. Austen Fox Riggs, who had
many varieties; Mrs. Eaton, Mr.. Choate
and Mrs. Hoffman.
In the division for peonies there were
displays by Mrs. L. Bolton Bangs, Mrs.
Bernhard Hoffman, Miss Mary WeyTlan
and Miss Eleanor Hague. Mrs. Oscar
Iasigi showed fne specimens Of single
pennies in pink and white.
Mrs. J. Woodward Haven, who has
one of the finest rose gardens in the
region at lngleside, showed sixteen va
rieties of roses in named varieties. 1t
was conceded by all 10 be the finest OK
hibition of garden flowers in the show.
Other large displays were made by Mrs.
Oscar Iasigi and Joseph II. Choate.
Mrs. Bernhard Hoffman's showing #
Canterbury bells and lilies was cxcap-
tionally fine. Naumkeag gardens also
exhibited in these classes.
Miss Eleanor Hague had the best col
lection of iris, showing the Spanish
iris in four colors. Mrs. Hoffman eX-
hibited white and blue Siberian iris.
There was a fine vase Of Irish pOppies
shown by Mrs. Hoffman, and Mrs. Wal
ter p. Eaton showed cosmos in variety.
Out of the garden of Irs. Brown Cald-
we'll came sweetpeas, she being the only
exhibitor Of peas and foXgloNe. Mrs.
Oscar Iasigi sent 10 the show i collec-
tion OF digitalis and ANIMALS. Miss
Mary Weyman's vase of larkspur was
praised.
Mrs. Carl A De Gersdorff served .es
Oh the sOukn POANh Va NV SoeAAAp thA
ing the late afternoon.
At the show were Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
eric Crowninshield, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Shields Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs.
Banyer Clarkson, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
H. Davis. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Woodward
Haven, the Rev. DR.. and Mrs. George
Granville Merrill, Mrs. Charles S. Mel
len, Mr. and Mrs. C. Livingston Duvsll,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Stuart KilbOurne,
Mrs. George Seymour Hastings. Mrs.
Georgia L. Randall, Mr.. and Mrs. Ram
sey Houghet, Mrs. Daniel Chester
French, Miss Margaret French, Mrs.
Oscar Iasigi, Mrs. Brown Caldwell. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Aston Bristed, Miss
Bristcd, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Tucker
man. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ludlow
Fowler, jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Blag-
den, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph II. Choate,
Miss Allison, 7. l.. Haughton, DIR. and
Mrs. W. Gilman Thompson, Mrs. James
r. Walker, Mrs. S. W. Woodwork, Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander Sedgwick, Mrs.
Thomas H. ROdmsn, Mrs. Edwin t.
Rice, Mrs. Brown Caldwell and Mr..
Elizabeth b. Lynde.