New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Six Garden Clubs
Capture Prizes at
World Flower Show
Somerset Hills Organization
Is First i'm Contest for the
Best Planting and Most
Practical Bird Bath

The Horticultural Society Of New
York offered six prizes to the Garden
Club of America, to be competed for
during the international flower show
at the Grand Central Palace. The Gar
den Club, of Somerset Hills. N. j., of
which Mrs. Francis G. Lloyd is presi-
dent, won the first prize in the con
test among the clubs for the best plant
ing and most practical bird bath The
Short Hills Garden Club (New Jersey),
Mrs. John A. Stewart jr. president, was
awarded the second prize, and the
Philipstown Garden Club (New Jersey.
Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb president, cap
tured the third.
FIRST prize was awarded to the, Green
wich NGarden Club, Mrs Luke Vincent
Lockwood president, for the. contest
which took place Wednesday for the
best arranged vase or basket of cut
uowers. The second prize went to the
Garden Club of Easthampton, J.. L.,
Mrs. William A. Lockwood president,
and the third was awarded to the Car
den Club Of Allegheny County, Pa, Mrs.
Henry r. Rea president.
The Garden Club of America is an
amateur organization, and has been in
existence for eight years. It's fifty
one member clubs stretch from coast
to coast and have an exchange Of visit
ing privileges with the Royal Horti-
cultural Society in England, as we'll as
With various organizations in France.
Many OF the famous gardens of this
country are represented in its men,
bership. The president of the Garden
Clubsof America is Mrs. Samuel Sloan,
45 East Fifty-third Street, New York,
and its secretary is Mrs. Harold Irving
Pratt, $50 Fifth Avenue, New York.
For the benefit of the wounded vet,
Grams of the war. childrens Easter,
fete will be held March 80 in, Aeolian
Hall. The moving picture of "The
Wizard of Or will be given under the
auspices of the New York Community
Service and a program especially at
tractive to children has been arranged.
Tickets may be obtained from Miss
Martha r. White, lis East Fifty fifth
Street.
The uatronesses include Mrs.
George b. Agnew, Mrs. William e.
Barstow, Mrs. Walter Phelps Bliss.
Miss Elizabeth Cutting, Mrs. Langdon
Geer, Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn. Mrs
James j. Higginson, Mrs. John Mead
Howells, Mrs. Alexander Lambert,
Mrs. G. Franklin Lawrence, Mrs. Seth
Low, Mrs. r. Burnham Moffat, Mrs.
Charles D. Norton. Mrs. Ernest Poole,
Mrs. George D. Pratt, Mrs, John T..
Pratt, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Mrs.
Francis Rogers, Mrs. James Gamble
Rogers, Mrs. Herbert S. Satterlee, Mrs.
William j. Schieffelin, Mrs. Arthur
Scribner, Mrs. Louise Morris Starr, Mrs.
Arthur Terry, Mrs. John Henry Ham
mond, Mrs. Dom Barber, Mrs. Thomas
w. Lamont, Mrs. Philip Livingston eani
Mrs. Robert Mead.
The Society of the New York Alumni
of Georgetown University will hold its
Caster "prom" at the Hotel Plaza
April 4. The patronesses are Mrs.
Nathan l.. Miller, Mrs. Edward D,
White, Mrs. George E.. Hamilton, Mrs.I
1ohn Agar, Mrs. George McNeir, Mrs.
BENJAMIN A. Matthews, Mrs. Conde NJ.
Mast, Mrs. George B. CorteIyou, Mrs.
Robert j. Collier, Mrs. Thomas E. Muir
ray. Mrs. Conda B. Pallens Mrs. Martin
Conboy, Mrs. William M. Barrett Mrs.
Charles N. Harris. Mrs. Louis C. Hag-
garty, Mrs. Joseph r :. Collins, Mrs,
James A. o'Gorman and Mrs. James. F.
Tracy.