Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-25
EVANSVILLE.

EVANSVILLE, Nd, September 25
Especially blast spring the Hyattsville
Horticultural Society offered four prizes
$40, 81. IS and $3-for the best local
gardens. There were twenty entered
and much interest was shown in the
competition. In the preliminary judg-
ing in June L. c. Stephens and NJ M.
Clark tied for first place; c. A. Maeoon
was next. and G. Hodges Carr only one
point behind. The difficult summer and
other conditions wrought many changes
in gardens. and the final judging, Just
made, shows G.. Hodges Carr to be first.
Z. A. Magoon second, W. R. Ballard
third and c. E. Glass fourth. The aver
age of the June and September scores
determines the winners, which are as
follows: c. A. Magoon. first; G. Hodges
Carr, second: NJ. NJ. Clark. third. and
j. L. King, fourth.
The scores on the better places are
very close. running from SS5 to 92 A
system OF handicaps was used by the
judges to equalize the large and small
places. those with more or less help
and those with different degrees Of diff
fculty to contend with. The judges
were Profs. Thurston, Ballard and Nor
ton of the University of Maryland
In addition to the prizes awarded,
following noteworthy features in gar
dens examined: Messrs. Upper and
Reinohl, rapid development of large
gardens from newly cleared wood
land; c. A. Magoon, fine attention to
details; J. L. King, very neat small
place, with good development of lawn
and shade; c. F. Glass, utilization of
all space for many things, but with
out crowding; H, w. Dorsey and Mr.
Werlich. excellent late vegetable gar
dens; E. A. Fuller. fine trees and
lawn with good, broad, open effect;
c. w. Clagett. complete, well arranged
garden; G. Hodges Carr. fine general
effect. showing the beauty of simpli-
city; Mrs. Mills O'Keefe, surprise eff
fects and personality; v. K. Chestnut,
large number of unusual species being
grown; L. c. Stephens. perfect plan
and good development of boundaries;
J. B. S. Norton, dahlia garden: w R.
Ballard, natural character and iris
bordered hillside walk: E. NJ. Petit,
good orchard: ]. K. Atherton. neat
development of small, poor city lot;
J. NJ. Long. unusual economic results
from fruit and vegetables.
Friday. October 1, from to 10 pm,
and Saturday. October 2, from to 10
pm, there is to be home and gar
den exhibition in Masonic Hall, in
which the public schools are cooper
ating. This is under the auspices of
the Hyattsville Horticultural Society,
W. r. Ballard. president; c. F. Glass,
secretary, and ]. B. S. Norton, chair
man of committee on exhibits 1t is
announced that all articles exhibited
for competition must be grown or
made or collected from the wild by
the exhibitor
A committee composed of Mayor
Thomas 81. Welsh, former Mayor Will
II lam +. Magruder and Capt. j. Moses
To-
a meeting of the chamber of COM
merce of Hyattsville to go to Balti-
more on Monday and arrange a hear
ing before the Maryland public serv-
ice commission to protest against the
readiness to serve charge of SO cents
per meter per month. which is in
cluded in the new schedule Of rates,
effective October l. filed with the COM
mission by the Hyattsville Gas and
Electric Company