Evening star., 1938-05-21
Lovely
Places on
Display
Number of Clubs
Are Sponsoring
Flower Shows.
By FRANCESCA MCKINNEY.


THERE will be group of hostesses
to receive the guests and act as
guides this afternoon and tomorrow at
the rose fete to be held in the garden
Of DR.. and Mrs. Whitman Cross.
At 4 o'clock on both afternoons DR.,
Gross and Mr. Hanson will give DEM
onstration of hybridization by pollina-
ton. and at 5 o'clock each day w.
H. Youngman. assisted by other men,
bers of the Potomac Rose Society. will
demonstrate budding and other phases
of rose culture In case Of rain the
garden will be open the next day.
The Bethesda Community Garden
Club will combine its annual garden
tour with flower show on Wednesday.
Members have drawn for the five ar
rangements in each home to be Wis
tied. Starting at the Battery Park Club
House at 1890 O'Clock. the tour will
continue to the gardens Of Mrs. Ford
Young. q Maple avenue, Alta Vista;
Mrs Benjamin T. Elmore, Locust ave-
nue.. Alta VISTA Mrs John B. Hutson.
5606 Moorland lane: Mrs. F. P. Di
Blasi. 902 Bradley boulevard; Mrs.
William Lee. 1922 Moorland lane; end
ing with luncheon at the home of Mrs.
Eugene Ferry Smith on Bradley road.
The Committee in Charge of Ar
rangements includes Mrs. Arthur j.
Hilland. Mrs Louis Gravelle. Mrs. AL
fred J. Steffen. Mrs William Lee and
Mrs Eugene Ferry Smith.
The May meeting of the Georgetown
Garden Club was held at Evermay, the
home of Mrs. Lammont Belin, on Fri
day. May 13, at O'Clock. The presi-
dent. Mrs. Talcott. presided.
After the business meeting Mrs.
Walter Peter give an interesting talk
on her trip to some of the outstand-
ing gardens of the South and Mrs
Willis Mills read paper on Homes
and Gardens in Natchez'
Tea was served, and later the men,
bers of the club were invited to visit
the gardens of Mrs. Belin and Mrs
Herman Hollerith.
The Chevy Chase ID. CO. Garden
Club will hold its annual spring
flower show at the All Saints Episco-
pal Church on Wednesday at o'clock
in the evening. The show, which is
open to amateur gardeners. will be
judged by Mrs. Theodore Coe,
E. C. Powell and Mrs. Lillian Smith.
Mrs. Paul Anderson. 63l9 Delaware
street, Chevy Chase. Md. is chairman
of the show. The public is invited
to attend.
Stately, Colonial Mackenzie Hall
will be the scene Friday afternoon,
May 81, from 2 until 6 o'clock. of the
Fort Belvoir Garden Clubs first an
nual flower show. Jutting out on the
Potomac on the peninsula adjacent to
and Just south of historic Mount YER
non, the balcony porch overlooking
the river will form a lovely setting for
the mass of flower exhibits.
Horticultural exhibits and flower
arrangements will be entered by many
gardeners on the post and by flower
enthusiasts from nearby Virginia and
Washington. Mrs. Daniel I. Sultan,
wife of Col. D. I. Sultan, Engineer
Commissioner of the District OF Co.
lumbia, and Mrs. John 1hlder Of
Georgetown will be among those from
Washington entering tables.
Acting as members of the Hospital
ity Committee to receive the guests
of the show will be Mrs. James A.
O'Connor, Mrs. Creswell Darlington
and Mrs. Heston r. Cole. Mrs. Cor
don Russell Young, president Of the
Garden Club and general chairman OF
the flower show, will entertain as her
guests at luncheon the Judges OF the
show
Prof. David Lumsden Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, landscape archi-
tect and particularly esteemed by the
Army for his beautiful landscaping Of
Walter Reed General Hospital, will
Judge the horticultural classes Of the
show. Mrs. Ihlder, who has had
much experience as judge and re-
Gently judged at the AlexandriA Flower
Show. will Judge the arrangement
classes.
Included in the horticultural division
will be roses, iris, peonies, pansies, mas
turtiums, daisies and columbine, as
we'll as class for various blooms. In
the arrangement division will be
artistic arrangements In various con-
tainers, arrangements In the japanese