Evening star., 1938-03-05

From the number Of garden club
say there were plenty Of garden lovers
In and around the Capital. All OF
these clubs have started to have
meetings. and many have already made
arrangements for lectures on interest,"
ing floral subjects.
Mr.. Ivan Anderson. the landscape
gardener Of Clarendon, will give An
illustrated lecture on the subject of
"Perennials Throughout the Year"
Monday evening before the Woodbridge
Garden Club. This lecture will be held
at the Sherwood Presbyterian Hall at
Twenty-second street and Rhode Island
avenue at 8 O'Clock. Any one interested
may attend, as it will not be restricted
to the Woodbridge Club members.
Not long ago the Woodbridge Club
held its annual dinner, when their
guest speaker was Mr.. b. Y. Harrison
Of the United States Department OF
Agriculture. who gave q very helpful
talk on "LAndscaping the Small Place"
The membership In this club now
totals 225.
The Sherwood Presbyterian Hall will
again be the scene Of . garden meeting
Tuesday when the members Of the
National Capital Dahlia Society will
gather to hear Mr.. Harry Quick of the
Maryland Dahlia Gardens, Baltimore
Nd. speak on the newest varieties Of
dahlias. This lecture will be open to
the public. 80 that all those inter-
ested may attend. This club, which is
two years old. is affiliated with the
American Dahlia Society.
Another meeting on Tuesday will be
the Little Garden Club of Silver
Spring The members will gather at
the Cedars. home of Mrs. Douglas
FArquhar, at Sandy Spring, Nd. for
= discussion Of the spring flower
shows.
The Garden Club Of Chevy Chase,
Nd, Of which Mrs. Robert Fleming Is
president, will meet on Wednesday At
the home Of Mrs. Alfred Fowler. Miss
Gertrude Sawyer, landscape architect
as well as structural architect, who
will be the speaker, has selected As
her subject for the occasion Land
scapins the Garden With Respect to
the Architecture of the House" As
sisting Mrs. Fowler will be Mrs. r.
M. M. Beall.
TWO very interesting discussions
will be given by the Garden Club
Of Chevy Chase, d. c., on Monday,
March II. at 2 O'Clock at the home
Of Mrs. George L. Hart, 1901 Jenifer
street, Chevy Chase. d. c. The first
talk will be on the furnishing of
window boxes to alley dwellers, which
Is 4 matter being done jointly with
the Federation of Churches, and then
boxes Of your surplus flowers being
sent to hospitals. DR.. Paul W. Bow
man will give lecture on wild flowers.
The Washington Garden Club has
also scheduled its next meeting for
Monday, March IA.
The Neishborhood Garden Club Of
Gaithersburg, Nd, has already elect
ed its new of1cers for the coming
year, and It's next meeting will be on
Wednesday. March Is. The Commu.
nifty Garden Club Of Bethesda, Nd,
will also hold its next meeting on
Wednesday, March Is.
The Takoma Horticultural Club OF
Takoma PARK, Nd, rolds its meet
inss on the fourth Monday in each
month ut the Takoma Library. These
meetings are open to the public, which
should be good news to = great many.
The narcissus show of the Garden
Club Of Virginia will take place on
March 20 and II. This show. which is
sponsored by the Garden Club of
Alexandra. will be in the form of q
memorial to Mrs. Floyd Harris of
Aldie, Va. whose death q few months
ago was such . loss to all the garden
clubs Of Virginia and to the horti.
culturists the world over.
The show will be held, as in previ-
GUS years, In the armory In Alexan-
dria. and promises to be larger than
ever.
Mrs. Charles Holden Of Alexandra
Is chairman Of the show, with Mrs.
Harry Newton Cootes as cochairman.
Mrs. Louis Dribel Of Danville is
chairman Of the flower show Of the
Garden Club Of Virginia. The CO.
chairmen Of the Narcissus Test Com
mittee Of the club are Miss Martha
Harris Of Aldie and Mrs. william
seipp Of Aiddlebure. Mrs. Gardner
Boothe Is chairman Of awards; Mrs.
Louis Scott, chairman Of programs;
Mrs. w. seipp, chairman Of club ex-
hibits; Mrs. Frances Carter, chair
man Of arrangements, and Mrs. Harry
N. Cootes, chairman Of publicity.
Acting on the Advisory Committee
are Mrs. r. M. billiard and Mr.. B. Y.
Morrison. the well-known authority
on the growing of narcissus.
On Tuesday Mrs. Philip Campbell
entertained the members of the Alex
andria Garden Club at luncheon in
her home, following the meeting.
Mrs. Guy Of Richmond. Va, was the
guest speaker, using Is her subject
the Identification Of roads. To illus
trate her talk Mrs. Guy showed COL
ored slides.
A discussion Of factors which relate
The EorIy lown