New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Amateur Horticulturists
Are Interested in the
Event Which Will Open
at Palace Tomorrow
Tea Garden To Be
Feature of Affair
Leaders i'm the Debutante
SET Will Help the Girl
Scouts in the Affair

TNH Z ninth International Flower
Show, which opens to-mor-
row in the Grand Central
Palace and which will continue for
week, has been planned this year
TO include many of the elements
which are of particular interest to
society. A number of socially prom
inent amateurs in the field of horti-
culture have entered the lists in COM
petition with professional flower
growers.
The exhibits of Mrs. Fl. Mex.
Twombly, Mrs. P. A. 3. Widener.
Mrs. Payne Whitney and Mrs. Z. A.
Constable are expected to make an
excellent showing in the various
classes in which they will compete.
Another social feature will be the tea
garden under the direction of the Man
haitian Council of Girl Scouts. who viii,
donate the receipts of one days busi-
ness IN TINS department to the Virginia
Day Nursery. reserving the remainder
Of the proceeds for the Girl Scouts, ex.
tension fund.
Fashion Show Will Add
To Interest of Exhibit
spring fashion show. which will be
staged by Lucille, Limited. for thirty
FIVE minutes, twice each day, besides
music and dancing, are added attrac-
tons that will serve to enhance the
interest which ordinarily centers
around the flower exhibits alone.
The exposition will open at 2 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon and after that
may be visited by the public from
10 a. m. until 1890 p. m. daily until
next Sunday night.
The tea garden has been designed by
William Lawrence Bottomley and will
have an eighteenth century Chinese ef-
feet. The garden will be partitioned
INTO loges, the dividing walls being
topped with growing flowers such as
hyacinths, camellias and tulips.
An attractive program has been ar
ranged for the afternoon and evening.
Opera stars will act with the reception
ing the week Lucrezia Bori and
Jeanne Gordon, of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, will aid.
Among the society girls who will act
as mannequins are Miss Marie La
Marche, Miss Helen A. Rice, Miss Kath-
crime Speyers, Miss Marjorie Andrews
and Miss Marguerite Doubleday.
Junior League to Aid
f,iyI Scouts In Ton Room
The junior league members are col
laboratng with the Girl Scouts to make
the tea room activities a success. Mrs.
Samuel Sloan Colt is chairman of the
dance committee, which is composed of
Miss Lucille Baldwin, Miss Janet
Brewer, Miss Dorothy Clemens, Miss
Gwendolyn Coombe, Miss Anita Dam
rosch, Miss Clarisse de Rham, Miss
Marguerite Doubleday, Miss Jean
Fletcher, Miss Betty Jackson, Miss Con-
stance Jennings, Miss Katherine Kent,
Miss Ethel King, Miss Katherine
Knapp, Miss Marie LaMarche, Miss
Helen Lee, Miss Edith Marshall, Miss
Katherine Morris, Miss Gertrude Og-
den, Miss Peggy Paris, Miss Helen Rice,
Miss Adele Ryan, Miss Virginia Ryan,
Miss Katherine Speyers, Miss Clara
Workum, Miss Isabelle Wood, Miss
-icHiesd IulUe, MISS MdIJotl Al"
drews and Miss Mary Sheffield.
The executive committee of the tea
garden is composed of Mrs. Samuel
Sloan. chairman; Mrs. Nicholas Brady
Mrs. Samuel Sloan Colt, Miss Marjorie
cleveland, Mrs. B. Tappen Fairchilo'
Mrs. Collin MoRae 1ngersoll, Mrs
Louis Gnerineau Myers, Mrs. Harold
Irwin Pratt, Mrs Charles Lawrence
Riker and Mrs. Faneuil Suydam Weiss.
The patronesses include Mrs. Her
pert Hoover, president of the Natinnai
Council Of Girl Scouts, and Mrs war
rem U. Harding, honorary president OF
the organization, while the local pa
tronesses are Mrs. Vincent Astor'
Chairman; Mrs; Hugh D. Auchincloss.
|. Mrs. George Blumenthal, Mrs. Arthur
Oesgood Choate, Miss E. Mabel Clark,
MIS-. ,. NanR. Crosby, Mrs. Henry W.
oe Forest, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson
Mrs. Henry F. du Pont, Mrs. John
Henry Hammond, Mrs. Joseph Wright
Hartman, Mrs. Theodore A. Have
meyer, Mrs. c, Oliver Iselin, Mrs. Wal
Ter Jennings, Mrs Otto H. Kahn, Mrs.
frank Brown Keech. Mrs. V. Everit
cMaaey, Mrs J. Willis Martin. Mrs.
IIhsraes w. McAlpin.. Mrs. D. Hunter
y, r. Mrs. Clarence Blair Mitch
Gill; MRS. Lewis Rutherford Morris,
". ~. ;hala L. Morris. Mrs. Henry
..alrchild Osborn, Mrs. ". Hobart Por-
VET and Mrs. Philip Ashton Rollins.
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