Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-30
GARDEN EXHIBIT
PLANS COMPLETE
Great Flower, Fruit and Veg
etabIe Display to Be Staged
in Somerset School.

The plans for the flower, fruit and
vegetable exhibition to be staged at the
Somerset School next Friday and Sat
urday, october 4 and 5, by the MONT
gomery Suburban Garden CLUB nave
been completed and advance ehtries
indicate that this will be the most rep
resentative exhibit of its character ever
given in the suburban area OF Mont
gomery County adjacent to the Dlstrlct
of Columbia line, displaying the PROD
ucts grown in the communities OF
Friendship Heights, Somerset, Drum
mond, Chevy Chase Gardens, Chevy
Chase Terrace and kenWooo allu au-
Joining territory in the Bethesda Chevy
Chase area.
It is expected that between four and
five hundred homes will be represented
in one or more of the 1877 classes OF
flowers. fruits and vegetables carried in
the schedule issued this week. The
move has met with enthusiastic sup
port on the part OF the residents and
organized bodies III the area ana tne
desire to excel ones netghbor IN the
production of the most beautiful flower,
the reddest apple or the choicest Vege-
table will be given opportunity TO eX-
press itself when the exhibits from the
six communities entering the competl-
ton are placed before the expert agrl-
cultural judges who have been engaged
to make the awards.
Ribbons as Prizes.
Each of the classes in the schedule
provides for prize ribbons ranging from
first to fifth awards. The club intro
duced some new features not ordinarily
found in such competitions. in that 1t
has set up a friendly competition be-
tween the four local women's clubs for
the best collective exhibit by those
clubs; another class Is that providing
for competitive collective exhibits by the
six component units or communities
comprising the Garden Club, and the
school children attending Somerset
School have not been forgotten. They
will exhibit in class providing for COM
petition between the six grades OF
the school, the awards to be for the
best collection of wild flowers, berries,
Fall foliage-the arrangement to be
considered.
The Judges of the exhibits will be
F. L. Milford and Prof. David Lumsden,
both of the United States Department
of Agriculture.
The exhibition will formally open at
pm. on Friday, October 4, and re-
main open Saturday until 10 pm.
| special hour has been reserved on
Saturday morning for the children to
view the exhibits.
Following the close of the exhibition,
| the flowers on Sunday morning will be
distributed by a special committee from
| the club TO the Montgomery County
| General Hospital.
Committees in Charge.
THE following committees are in
| charge of the exhibit:
! General exhibition committee for in
dividual home exhibits-Mrs. John A.
Fleming, chairman. Subcommittee for
Friendship Heights. C. Dulin, jr.,
vice chairman; j. A. P. Farnhan1, Isaac
N. Colby. Mrs. w. l.. Kline, Mrs. S. j.
Ross and Mrs. H. C. Riley. Subcom-
mittee for Somerset-Mrs. Leon Saylor,
vice chairman; Mrs. C. S. Moore, Mrs.
J. E. Tibbetts: Mrs. G. M. Arthur, Mrs.
! Florence Stohlman and Miss Helen
| Stohlman. Subcommittee for Drummond
Mrs. T. NJ. Anderson, vice chairman;
Mrs. F. c. Wallace and Mrs. John A.
! Fleming. Subcommittee for Chevy
Chase Gardens-Miss Mabel V. Royce
vice chairman; H. s. Clarks, Charles
Squire, Otto Rupert, jr.: Mrs. w. j.
Mclean, Mrs. w. j. Ransdell and Fred
erick A. Genau. Subcommittee for
1 CneNy CndSe 1eTTdCe-huleIIldII Odh-
man, vice chairman; Mrs. o. F. Busby,
B. W. Morse, Miss Louisa Huntington,
Miss Renee Purcell, Miss Cornelia Cot
ton and c. F. Thompson. Subcommittee
for Kenwood-Donald L. Chamberlin,
vice chairman; Mrs. c. P. Grady.
Committee in charge of womens club
exhibits-Mrs. John A. Fleming, chair
man; Mrs. w. L. Kline, Mrs. Holland
Huntington, Mrs. J. E. Shillinger and
Mrs F. C. Wallace: competitive ex-
hibits to be from Women's Clubs Of
Friendship Heights, Somerset, Bethesda
and Chevy Chase.
Somerset School class exhibits-Mrs.
A. w. Hummel, chairman: c. w. Rip
pey, Mrs. Doris Day and Mrs. Kathryn
Bricker.
Competitive collective community ex-
hibits e. H. Bogley, Friendship
Heights; Mrs. J. w. Stohlman. Somer-
set; Mrs. T. M. Anderson, Drummond;
Judge Henry j. Hunt, Sd, Chevy Chase
Gardens; o. F. Busby, Chevy Chase
Terrace; Donal L. Chamberlin, Ken
! wood.
Special non competitive exhibits from
neighboring States-Peter Bisset, chair
man; H. r. Watkins.
The following committees will have