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Floriculturists* Delight
The late Helen Hokinson, of New Yorker cartoon-fame, would have had fieldday at the “Fun with Flowers” show sponsored by the Rappahannock Garden Club. Those who knew Miss Hokinson’s art could visualize her bemused twinkle as she mingled with the pleased and displeased after the judging. One of her outstanding cartoons about her beloved club “girls” shows the portly president introducing a very prominent looking gentleman as the important speaker of the meeting, and admonishing him not to talk too long as several of the “girls” had had major operations that they wanted to discuss 1
Miss Hokinson’s work was all the more delightful because it was not vitrolic. She doted on her girls for she was one of them; but enjoyed prodding them with gentle digs as she saw the humor as well as the world of good intentions behind their constant “drives” for the Community Chest, Red Cross, and general welfare of the country. Could she have kept her gifted pen still as she heard one complain at last Friday’s Fun Show that her “petunia” should have been first or another bemoan her broken “coleus”? Would she not have cherisher the exhibit on “Favorite Rappahan nock Sport” which used elephant’s ear and mother-in-law’s tongue as foliage and depicted “gossip” as a favorite sport? Most likely she would have appreciated one wag’s comment that it was too bad the season was not Spring so that the “bleedingheart” might have been added!
It was obvious that many visitors were amazed that Rappahannock could produce the interesting exhibits that were displayed in her first flower show. To be sure, there have been finer specimens and more exotic foliage at the bigger shows; but the work of the staging committee of Rappahannock’s show and the originality of many of the arrangements need beg for quarter from no one. It was plainly seen by the discerning that the success of the show was not due to the work of any individual, no matter how important his or her work may have been. Achievement of this order can only be realized by a combined elfort of the “team” rather than that of any “star player."
Exhibiting is trouble, but well worth it. It is only on the show table that we can judge the real quality of our flowers. Pride in one’s garden is universal. Those who shun publicity in other fields are always cooperative concerning
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