Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
CUP IS PRESENTED
AT FLOWER SHOW
Spring Iris Display at Carl
ton Hotel Comes
to Close.

Having been viewed. by hundreds of
visitors during its two-day event. the
Spring Iris Exhibition and Flower Show
of the National Capital Dahlia and Iris
Society came to a close last night at
the Carlton Hotel by the presentation
by Mrs. M. L. Payne, president CT the
society, Of Thu Evening Star silver
trophy to the Eyattsville Horticultural
Society, winner in the garden club ex-
hibit competition.
Each year the name of the winning
organization is engraved on the trophy,
and the first organization to win the
cup three times will be entitled to its
permanent possession. It was first won
by the Hyattsville Society in 1929 and
last year the Montgomery Suburban
Garden Club OF Montgomery County
was the successful contestant!
Hundreds of Flowers.
Officials of the Iris Society last night
expressed qualification at the spirit of
competition which the contest for The
Evening Star Trophy has engendered
between the garden clubs of the Dis
trict of Columbia, Arlington and Fair
fax Counties, Va, and Prince Georges
and Montgomery Counties, Va, as evil
denced by the beautiful displays the
different organizations entered from
those arsa, supplemented by hundreds
of flower specimens from individual
members Of the respective flower clubs
DR. Earl w. Sheets. regional vice
president of the American Iris Society
for the District of Columbia, Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia, during the
show presented to the 1880 contestants
the silver and bronze medals of the
American Iris Society, DR.. Earle B.
White OF Kensington receiving the sill
yer medal for winning the most first
prize points in the iris classes at the
1880 exhibition, and Howard r. Watkins
OF Somerset, Md, received the societys
bronze medal for winning the most first
and second prize points. Mr.. Watkins
this year captured the silver medal, and
Mrs. II. p. Wilson of Fairfax won the
bronze medal
Seeding Iris Shown.
Special features of the exhibition
which attracted unusual attention of
visitors were displays of seeding irises,
originated by local hybridists, which
represented years of careful crossing of
varieties. The American Iris Society's
judges recommended award of the high
est honor offered by the national So
ciety to several local exhibitors the GER
tificate of honorable mention of the
American Iris Society. This certificate
wac recommended to be awarded to
H. P. Simpson of Arlington County for
his Seeding Aphro No. 2, and j. Marion
Shull of Chevy Chase received a like
recommendation for his light yellow
iris, seeding No. 3
Other seedlings, originated by local
specialists. which attracted attention of
the judges and won their recommended
ton for consideration of an award of
the certificate of honorable mention,
were Seeding No. l, deep blue. orig
mated by w. T. Simmons of Takoma
Park; Seeding No. 2071. a medium light
yellow. originated by j. Marion Shull
OF Chevy Chase, and Seeding No. 518,
originated by Earl w. Shee S.
Outstanding Exhibition.
The outstanding non-competitive ex-
hibit of the show was that staged by
Mr.. Sheets, composed Of three speci-
mems each of ATS different varieties of
the best American and imported irises.
comprising a display of more than 5000
blossoms, each variety separately labeled
Another non-competitive educational
exhibit was that staged by H. P. Simp-
son Of Arlington County His exhibit
was unusual in that it was made up of
irises arranged as clumps.