Evening star., 1953-03-05
By jones BirchfieId

spring, featuring the latest mod
els in Towering fashions, was
to open this afternoon at the
National Guard Armory.
Last-minute finishing touches
were being put on airy spring
gardens today in preparation
for the opening of Washington's
third National Capital Flower
and Garden Show at pm. by
Mrs. Eisenhower.
Local florists, nurserymen,
landscape architects and anna
teur gardenerS-members of the
garden clubs making up the
National Capital Garden Club
League-have co-operated to
turn the vast Armory space into
a mass of blooming flowers.
Flower Arrangements Change.
In the garden club section Of
the show, which takes up about
one-flfth of the total floor space,
will be found flower arrange
ments, which will change daily;
10 gardens, representing gardens
on the Eastern Seaboard; garden
gate paintings, indoor gardens,
wall plaques and furnished
rooms containing flower ar
rangements.
In the professional, or COM
mercial section of the show,
nurserymen and florists have
converted the armory into a
blooming paradise.
The IL gardens in the club
section have been designed and
constructed by the following
clubs:
Georgetown Garden Club,
Pennsylvania green and white
garden: American Horticulture
Society, Massachusetts, shady
garden; Ayr Hill Garden Club.
Potomac woodland garden;
Wesley Heights-Spring Valley
Garden Club, Connecticut spring
garden; The Homesteaders,
Maryland woodland path; Hoe
n Hope Garden Club, North
Carolina azalea garden; National
Capital Garden Club League.
Virginia Colonial garden: Po-
tomac Rose Society, Washington
rose garden: Trowel Club. South
Carolina outdoor terrace, and
New Scotland Garden Club, New
York terrace.
Paintings at Gates.
Garden gate paintings have
been designed by the Rockville
Garden Club, the Yates Garden
Club, The Perennial Garden
Club, the Burleigh Garden Club,
and Chevy Chase !Md0 Garden
Club.
Bird-feeding stations are de-
signed by the Fairfax Garden
Club, the Kensington Garden
Club, East Pines Garden Club
and Belle Haven Garden Club.
The garden club gardens, along
with the other permanent club
entries, were to be judged today.
The award for the outstanding
garden. a sitter bowl given by
The Evening Star, will be pre-
Sented at $3.50 pm. by Mrs.
Nixon, wife Of the Vice Presi-
dent.
The Star also is awarding
silver bowls as trophies in the
following classes: Best garden
gate planting, best bird-feeding
station, best indoor garden, best
plaque and best commercial gar
den in the show.
Azaleas in ProfusiOn.
Among the commercial exhib-
its. azaleas will predominant.
The National Botanic Garden.
showing for the first time this
year, will have on display banks
of various colored tender aza-
leas, while azaleas are used as
accents in most of the other
gardens.
Outstanding among the pro-
feSSional exhibits is New Eng
land Alpine garden by A. /.
Heimlich of Woburn, Mass.
Growing here. at the foot of a
mountain waterfall. are the
worlds smallest trumpet daffo-
dis, the tiny NarciSSus ASturien-
sis. Another tiny daffodil grow
ing here is the Narcissus Cycla-
mineuS.
For the orchid lover, there is a
display of orchids from many
sections Of the world, exhibited
by the National Capital Orchid
Society. and for the lover Of
roses there is Q wide collection