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—Thru’ the Garden Gate
With the publication of the schedule of the Spring flower show, hectic days loom ahead for members of the Rappahannoek Garden club and their friends and families. Cinderblocks and wheelbarrows have to be borrowed, husbands have to be drafted for nailing and sawing. Whenever two gardners meet woeful predictions are heard that “I won’t have a thing to exhibit; nothing will be blooming in my garden on the twenty-third.” Despite the pessimism the sun shines and the rains come as though to give assurance of iris, peonies and roses to grace the show.
The theme of the 1952 show, “Thru the Garden Gate,” was suggested by the collect which Mrs. Hening wrote for the first yearbook,- and which- appears on the back cover of the schedule. The theme is carried out in the arrangement classes with the ideas of a day in a garden. For most of us our garden day consists of hasty moments among the plants in the company of friends, family, chickens, dogs and even an occasional head of stock. We hope our arrangement classes will reflect the idea of our gardens as happy in\iting places for our loved ones and not forbidden territory.
The first class “Morning Dew” is a composition suggesting the rich bounty of the garden. The exhibitor has a wide choice of material here and can give free rein to her originally. After such an uninhibited spree with flowers the second class brings us down to earth not too abruptly. This class is politely called “Zany with the Noon-day Sun” but really means “crazy with the heat.” Here we have a chance to make our best and worst arrangements, using the same plant material and secretly hoping the judges will be able to
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