Evening star., 1938-09-17
Rose Exhibit
Will BeHeld
In October
'Corsage Classes
Special Features;
New This Year.
HOME gardeners with roses to tend

HONE gardeners with roses to tend
and enjoy are fortunate members
OF society. Those in addition who are
able to produce fine roses have their
reward in this accomplishment and
the opportunity of sharing their rose
beauty with others less fortunate.
This latter desire has led to the COL
lective public display Of roses by those
who grow them. These flower dis
plays in turn tend to stimulate the
desire Of home gardeners to grow even
finer roses.
In order to further and encourage
this laudable aim, the Potomac Rose
Society of the National Capital at the
October l and 2 rose display In the
new National Museum, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street NV, is able
through the generosity of Dumbarton
Oaks, to award seven books on rose
growing to the seven garden clubs
whose members collective rose display
secures the highest number of points
in the l43 variety classes. The garden
club having the highest number of
points making the first choice of these
books, followed by the others in the
order Of their standing. These books
include Roses of the World in Color"
THE Rose in America" and Modern
Roses" by DR.. j. H. Mcfarland: "A
Year in the Rose Garden-a Rose
Odyssey" by j. A. Nichols: Climbing
Roses" by G. A. Stevens, and How
to Grow Roses" by Robert Pyle and
DR.. Mcfarland.
Through the cooperation Of the
American Rose Society, under whose
rules this rose display is judged, copies
of the American Rose Society ANIMALS
have been provided for those amateurs
exhibiting the best collections Of roses
of the different color, and also in COL
lections of mixed colors. The Ameri-
can Rose Society is offering special
gold and silver certificates for the
growers of the most meritorious out
of-door grown unintroduced novelty
roses. They are also offering one sill
yer and one bronze medal certificate
for the first and second best roses in
the amateur classes. The publishers
of the Flower Grower are offering
that garden magazine for a year to
the amateur who exhibits the third
best rose in the amateur display.
Blue, red and white ribbons Of the
Potomac Rose Society will be awarded
to the three best roses in each Of the
143 amateur classes, "a hybridizer
classes and 80 classes for greenhouse
grown roses. In the home garden
classes q gold cup is offered to the
member of the American Rose Society
in this area having the most first,
second and third class placings. The
Richard L. Ruffner silver bowl Is pro-
vided for the amateur having the
highest number Of points at this sixth
annual Potomac Rose Show.
In addition, some 100 dormant rose
plants of the finer rose varieties and II
silver cups and rose vases will be di-
vided among the winners, particularly
beginners, as will six volumes of How
to Grow Roses" donated by Mr.. Robert
Pyle of the Conard-Pyle Co., West
Grove, Pa.
A special feature is being made this
year Of the corsage classes, both ANA
teur and commercial, which will be
judged by committee Of three young
ladies from the Junior League. Cut
glass vases for single roses will be
awarded the winners in the corsage
classes.
For hybridizers and nurserymen
showing the newer rose sorts and those
not yet introduced, the Washington
Evening Star rose vase will be given the
exhibitor having the most points in
this division.
The certificate Of merit of the Po-
tomac Rose Society may be awarded
at the discretion of the Board of Di-
rectors for display Of exceptional
merit. Silver rose vases of the Potomac
Rose Society are offered for the three
best roses in this division.
In the greenhouse-grown rose divi-
sion, a silver rose vase Of the Wash
ington Florists Club goes tb the ex-
hibitor having the highest number of
points. The Times-Herald silver rose
vase will 60 to the exhibitor Of the
best basket containing 50 Of any one
variety Of the newer or uuintroduced