Evening star., 1951-03-04
Garden Club
Activities


Members Of the Potomac Rose
Society will demonstrate the
pruning Of rose bushess this after
noon at 2:30 o'clock at the Shore
ham Hotel rose garden. $500 Cal
vert street NV. e..
This garden of 200 rose bushes
was planted last spring by the
Society and this demonstration
will show how the new additions
to the rose garden should be
pruned. More than 200 members
and visitors attended the demon
stration last Sunday.
The garden section OF the Jun
ior Woman's Club Of Chevy Chase
will meet tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Eldon
E. Sweezy, 8007 Kentbury drive,
Bethesda. After a short business
meeting the program will be
turned over to members of the
Glenwood Road Garden Club.
Guest speakers will include Mrs.
A. M. Thomas. Mrs. E. L. Tolson,
jr., and Mrs. Paul Bowker. They
will talk on Turning Summer
Bouquets Into Winter Arrange
ments." In connection with this
discussion they will show an edu-
cational exhibit of winter arrange
ments used at the 1850 Harvest
Show. Club members who are
| planning to attend are urged to
notify Mrs. Carl B. Hongell, chair
man, at Decatur 0975.
The Kenwood Garden Club will
meet tomorrow morning at 10 at
the Kenwood Country Club. The
subject will be MY Garden" Mrs.
Charles Bittenger. a member of the
Georgetown Garden Club. guest
speaker, will illustrate her lecture
with colored slides.
A report on the fifth Williams
burgh Garden Symposium, held
last week, will be given tomorrow
night to the Woodbridge Garden
Club, meeting at 8 o'clock at Taft
Junior High School. Eighteenth
and Perry streets NE.
The speaker. DR.. Freeman
Weiss. was leading participant
in the symposium and spoke on
Keeping the Small Garden
Healthy and Happy" He also
took part in discussions. DR..
Weiss is now curator of the Amer
lean Type Culture Collection in
Washington.
The Avondale Garden Club will
meet in the board room of the
Avondale branch of the Citizens
Bank of Riverdale Tuesday at 8
pm. This will be the third ami
versary of the club.
The hostesses. Mrs. ]. Mclean
and Mrs. D. Hignite have planned
to show slides of a trip taken by
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Mclean to
Alaska.
The Chesapeake and Potomac
Iris Society meets Tuesday at 81
pm. at the National Museum.
Tenth street and Constitution
avenue NV. Austin Nisonger will
talk on Spring Cleanup" or
things to do in March. A collec-
ton of 100 Kodachrome slides
showing old and new varieties of
iris and daylilies will be shown.
Historic homes and churches of
Maryland. some of them built be-
fore the Revolution will be viewed
during an illustrated lecture by
Mrs. Blanchard Randall ard Mrs.
H. Rowland Clapp before the
Garden Club of Chevy Chase, Md,
Wednesday. The lecture will take
place at pm. in the parish hall
of All Saints Episcopal Church,
Chevy Chase circle.
Mrs. William S. Corby, club
president, will convene a board
meeting at her home. 8 Chevy
Chase circle at noon. followed by
luncheon. Mrs. Parker Dodge is
chairman of the Hostess Commit
tee. Assisting are Mrs. Frank
Chase. Mrs. Arthur Crawford,
Mrs. Robert Fleming, Mrs. Will
liam Sabine, Mrs. Arthur Sturgis,
Mrs. Percival Wilson and Mrs.
Richard Winder.
The monthly meeting Of the
National Capital Dahlia Society
will be held in the National Mu-
scum, Room 43. Tenth street and
Constitution avenue NV, on
Thursday at pm.
A demonstration will be given
by j. Leslie Bowling on the prop
agation of dahlia plants from
roots. There will also be a dis
cussion on how to plants dahlia
seed and the care of seedlings.
There will be a question and
answer period conducted by the
program chairman.