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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Mar 1928, p. 34

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Each Model to Illustrate Well Considered Plan for Hom· Ground Planting The miniature garden competition among garden clubs of the Chicago district which will be a feature of tht Chicago Garden and Flower show in the Hotel Shennan, March 24 to April l, is arousing keen interest. In addition to being spectacular, this exhibit will be. of the highest educational value, as each model will illustrate a weD considered plan for planting the . home grounds. Awards will be wholly at the discretion of the judges; but it is to be expected they will be guided by the generaUy accepted principles of land- THIS illustrati~n shows the model house and tray, representing the yard, which is supplied to each garden club as scaping small home grounds. A brief 1 the basis for its work in the miniature garden competition which will b~ a. feature <!f the .Chicago Garden .and Flow~r statement of these principles may be show in the Hotel Sherman. The tray. it is announced, cannot be altered an 1ts plan d1mens1ons, so that each mode.l wtll of interest. be of the same area, representing a suburban lot 75 by 150 feet. The bouse may be altered and added to at the dlscreFirst the area is divided into two tion of the club, it is announced. or three parts, according to the pur- .::::.:.:_:.:....::.:...:=:.:...:.:...:::...:====--------------------------------pose each is to s~rve. If two ~arts, require the winter's freezing and thaw- Picture of OpbelitJ Blair they are the publtc area and prlva~e ing, and so must be planted in the fall. are. a. If thre.e parts, the publtc, J?rlAmong these are the hardy phlox, iris, Secured for Southern Club nte, and servtce area. In the plantmg peonies blazing star evenin~r prim( Conlribtlled) each fhould be screened from the '· ( 1i d) t~oIf other and should be developed accordrose, spiraea. so ca e IUS, gas Mrs. Edgar F. Alden, 352 Linden · t' ·t (Co~tlribtlled by Wilmette Garden Club) ·plant, hyper1cum and cass1a. Many avenue, Winnetka, president of the Jag o J s purpose. · seeds are best planted as soon as they The front y~rd is the public ~rea. ~t the meeting last Friday of the are ready to fall from the plant. A Southern Woman's club of Chicago, Here t~e p~nt1.nfl sho1;1ld .be restramed, W tlmette Garden club at ~he home of covering of small twigs makes. a good has just secured for the prospective expresstag mVItlng dqputy. The ef- Mrs. Dan Greene, much 10terest was covering for plants for the w10ter feet in all seasons of the year is im- shown in t~e first scrap book of the She told how to make a seed bed home of the club in Chicago a remark~nt. Tr~ sho~ld frame the house, club begun m 1?22 when the club was in the open. One two or three feet able portrait of Ophelia L. Blair who and fountam plantm' sho~ld be so a~- known as ~he. L1ttl~ Garden club. Most souare is large enough. It must be out was the founder-president of the nqecl as to harmon.1ze ~th th~ archa- of the. clappmJS 10 the early scrap of the way where it will not be dis- Southern Woman's club. The painting, lecture, and emphasize 1ts mer1ts. boo~, JUSt as 10 the later one, were turbed. It may be elevated or level. which is from the brush of Harold In the service . area, economy of taken .from ~II.M~TT£ ~~F~ and s~owed Dig out two inches and · fill in with 10terest which the vdlage good soil, the upper inch sifted. Plant Harington Betts, won considerable enapace, ease of access to and from the ·the kmdly · coniums and high praise at the Art kitchen entrance to the house, and ar- paper took 10 a .smt!ll group of garden- the seeds in straight rows, each seed institute two years ago in the annual ranaement of walks and planting which ers who ho~d In time to be of use to no deeper than its narrowest depth. Chicago Artists' salon and at many . Keep the seed bed covered with burlap other art exhibits. will be easily kept clean and in good the commumty. Mrs. Edward Moore, who again will until the seeds are well up. order will be important. The private area is developed .as t~e have charge of the Public Garden Among a .number of i!'teresting The acquisition of the picture was outdoor living room, in wh1ch as Ma.r~et May 13, told of a poster co~- newer peren~aals she mentioned the the subject of considerable rivalry be~reated the garden picture. Important petataon to be h~ld fo~ that t:vent, m Jersey Gem v1ola and the cynoglossum tween various other organizations and points here are direct and inviting the ~chools. Pnzes wdl be ~ven f'?r (Chinese forget-me-not) as two of the the Southern Woman's club, and formerly was in possession of the . . . access from the living apartments of the best posters made for the ?ublac best. the house to the garden. The axis of Garden Market by the school children. Pure whtte hesperas ·~ an ol~ High Noon club, where it graced its the garden should be related to the .Af!nouncement was mad.e that those fashion~d flower tha! ~om~10es beauh- lounge. house design preferably leading direct- WJshmg to make rese"ahons for the fully WJth blue delphmmm 10 a garden. Mrs. Alden is to be congratulated on ly from the prden entrance. Wilmette luncheon Wednesday, March To make it bloom as late as the del- securing this famous picture of Mrs. 'nl d ma be developed in any 28, at 1 o'clock at the Hotel Sherman, phinium, she said, one pinches off the Blair as this lovely portrait of such a e gar he!' h tyhe club desires in during the Chicago Garden an~ Flower first white ~uds as they come. wonderful woman has been and will manner w IC · Show are to make them w1th Mrs. continue to be an inspiration to young formal or natural style; but c~re should c p ' Berg whose telephone is Wil- M·s. M·urr·~e L;eL-r womanhood. The purchase price of be ~ken to observe the ~ws o~ co!D- ~ett~ 1928.' ·· .. "' · ue pidure is said to be $1,000, which pos1t1~n. Th.e ga!den Picture IS bke Mrs. Ralph Huff told of the garden Resumes League Clt11111 the was raised by subscription. any pacture II} this. A screen about books in the club's library and gave Mrs. Maurice Lieber has resumed t~e garden WID undoubtedly be rated a brief review of several of them. This her Parliamentary Law classes for the h~; and '?rnaments and fe~tures is the season when garden books are North Shore Catholic Woman's league. Catholic League Plana wh1ch add mterest to the PICture being taken from the shelf and read. These classes were discontinued durLat Program Match 13 · . . The Wilmette Public Library has a · ·u L" b ' "11 Th ahoul.d be used. It IS announced the pomts on which number of interesting garden books mg .Mrs. le er s I ness. e meetMrs. Anthony . Eiden, corresponding the judging will be based are : Scale, on its shelves . ing was on Wednesday at her home, secretary of the North Shore Catholir · · · · E · 468 Ridge avenue, Winnetka. Ia design, p nttng, nnagmataon. veryThe speaker of the afternoon was The league held a sewing meeting Woman's league, announces the next thing must be in scale, that is, , of a Mrs. Maude Jacobs, whose delight- Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. meeting on Tuesday, March 13, ·t the size which goes with the other parts ful talks on prdening are given un- William B. Pavey, 845 Lincoln avenue. Winnetka Woman's club. · of the modeL Guard carefully against der the auspices of the West Park :Mrs. Sidney F. Beech of Glencoe. asiaa trees too large, paths too wide commissioners. Did you ever try' t~ Assisting the hostess were Mrs. N. P. one of the members, is to give an aa4 ornaments too tall to be properly develop your own strain of a certain Anderson and Mrs. William Schildgen. illustrated lecture of the "Rocky in scale. Design will probably be te~ted plant? Mrs. Jacobs suggested that all C·thol;# Club ·o H···· Mountains." bY the fundamental laws of destgn. amateur gardeners would find this an in- .. n. ~, ....,..., members are urged to attend and Tbe .Planting will.~ examined to de .. tensely interesting experience and said Fine Artl Program TodfH· toAll bring guests, as this is the last termine whether 1t 1s so planned as to that it was the amateur gardeners who -· be practical, and to give a succession had produced many of the choicest Today is the occasion of a meeting program this year. of displays throughout the season. strains. of the fine arts department of the TO SEW FOR PHILANTHROPY laaqiaation will undoubtedly consist of Her subject for the afternoon was Woman's Catholic club of Wilmette at the oriainaHty and completeness of the ·"Growing Perennials from Seed.,; the home of Mrs. John W. Boylston, Friday morning, March 16, is the c:oaception which the model expresses. Her audience took notes as rapidly as 1~ Ches!nut avenue. Th~ hostess next day of sewing under the auspices Committees working on these models each one could write, for her talk was Will be assuted by Mrs. Edwm Geor~ of the philanthropy department of the wiD do weD to obtain standard boob so practical and useful that no one er and Mrs. W. Miller. The hour of Woman's club of Wilmette. Sewing on prdeo deliarn and familiarize them- could afford to miss a word. The fate meeting is 2 o'clock. commences in the morning at 10 and ae1Yet with the laws wbich are aeneral- of future prdens bung in the balance. Mrs. 0. Brockmeyer Mrs. G. Schil- continues until late afternoon. Th~ lio-rllll ., ludlca" · en. the \¥hile IDOit ~Dial seeds, abe said, bach, :Urs. II. B. Morris, and Abram work this month is for the Francis 81lilillt-2t..lr eiilllietiiljMiuu·~·-··-. . ., .. pt,ntecl in April, certain oau Mendenhall will give the program. Juvenile home. I Gatden T al/u I 1

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