Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
GARDEN CONTESTS
OFFER Il TROPHIES
Communities Here, in Nearby
Virginia and Maryland
Will Compete.

Communities in Washington and con-
tiguous counties in Maryland and .Vir-
GINA will compete in a garden contest
sponsored by the Garden Committee of
the George Washington Bicentennial
for II silver trophies which the COM
mittee will award in connection with
Identification for the celebration in
1882.
One Of the silver trophies will be
awarded to each of the five commune
ties in Washington showing the most
beautiful lawns and paintings, and one
will be given the community showing
the greatest improvement in lawns and
paintings. These six awards are for the
white communities.
Three will go to colored communities
of Washington; one each to the two
showing the most beautiful lawns and
paintings, and one to the community
showing the greatest improvement.
The prizes. it was said. will be COM
peted for in 1881 and 1882, and possibly
1898. They will remain in competition
until won twice by the same community.
Award In Contests Nearby.
In addition to the loving cups to be
given to communities within the city,
awards will be, made in Fairfax and
Arlington counties, Va, and Mont
gomery and Prince Georges counties,
Md. A trophy will be given the COM
munity in each county showing the best
lawns and paintings, and another for
the community in each county showing
the greatest improvement in lawns and
paintings.
Donors Of cups for the white COM
munities in the city include the Evening
Star, the Washington Post, the Wash
ington Herald, Barber g. Ross, William
A. Guide and A. Eberly d Sons. The
three cups for the colored communities
will be awarded by the National Benefit
Life Insurance Co., THYME Taxicab Co.
and George j. Adams, executive secre-
tary Of the George Washington Bicen-
tennial Garden Committee, which is
sponsoring the contest.
The contest will begin on May l each
year and will terminate on September
l. In addition to the above prizes, the
committee will award a prize of $50 in
gold to the person or persons submit
ting the best suggestions for improve
ment OF tree strips in Washington and
its environs.
Tree strips" it was explained, are
the areas controlled by the superin-
tendent of trees and parking, lying
between the sidewalk and the curb in
public streets, in which trees are, or
may be, planted.
Chatham Heads Judges.
Suggestions, which must be In writ
ing. will be received by the committee
at room 507, District Building.
Gen. B. F. Cheatham of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, will head the COM
mittee of judges in the garden contest.
Judges of the strip contest have not
yet been announced. Officers of the
committee include, besides Mr.. Adams,
c. Melvin Sharpe, chairman; Mrs. Fred
erick H. Brooke, vice chairman, and
Miss Margaret c.. Lancaster, secretary.
A staff of horticultural experts, mem
bers of the committee, will endeavor
to answer all questions concerning the
care and cultivation Of gardens, it was
said. Among them are DR.. w. r.
Beattie, Bureau of Plant Industry, De-
partment of Agriculture: r. w. Dunlap,
Assistant Secretary of the Department
of Agriculture; c. Lanham, Superintend-
ent of trees and parking in the District
of Columbia; r. w. Rogers, Maryland
Park and Planning Commission: T. B.
SymonS, University of Maryland Nolan
RyerSon, Bureau of Foreign Plant In
PRODUCTION; H. B. Derr, Fairfax County,
and M. M. Shoemaker, University of
Maryland.