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TIffi GALAX mm AUGUST 18, 1955 PAGE 9 blue and red ribbons, A x^rell knom High lands flower grower, Mrs, Reese, placed versatile and beautiful entries in a great many classes in the show, and we are particularly proud of her because, to this writer's I'Cnowledge, she is the first na tive Highlander to win the Flower Show sweepstakes* The judges awarded very few blue rib bons in horticultural dahlias and glads since our growing season has been too poor to produce top quality blooms. Me want lots of entries, but the standards of the Shox^r must also be kept high, and so a red ribbon soinetimt^s means the best award of that cl.ass. In horticulture, Mrse A.T, Carter won the tri-color ^^d.th her magnificent gold band lily, and the arrangements tri~color ribbon was awarded to Mrs, Frank Cook for her artistic display of white gladioli and dahlias in an antique white pitcher. Another arrangement arrousing a great deal of comment was that of T,M. Beck man who used perfect Dainty Bess rosed in an irridescent glass bowl, Mrs, J,M, Valentine was runner-up vdth number of points won in the show, and the numerous and artistic entries of Lahry Baechle and Mr, George Hawkinson won much favorable comment. The children’s exhibits were the best we have seen in years, and in the junior division Miss Earlene Meyers came off with top honors with three blue ribbons while Jimmy Valentine was second with a ribbon of each color. Hiss Meyers entry in "One of Mama's Kitchen Utensils”, miniature flovjers and fruit in a set of colored plas tic measuring spoons, was very clever and cunning. A display which some of the judges vdsh to have pictured in the North Carolina Garden Club magazine was the mantel ar- rangem.ent of the Harold Cooledges, An enormous branched spray of glycerine treated copper beech was silhouetted against the gray-green wass; its con tainer was a bronze Chinese planter while the accessories on the mantel con sisted of a terra cotta and gray ceramic bowl on carved wooden base and a large, antique Chinese tea caddy enameled in gold.and black. Above the mantel hung an original painting by Harold Cooledge, Jr,, a modern design in tones of brown, gray, bronze, and okre which mellowly blended with the Chinese antique. Gift and decorating shops entering very fine exiiibits were the Highland Fling, The Ark, Wits End, The Country Mouse, the Auction Gallery, Highlands China and Crystal Shop, the Woman’s Ex change, The Blue Moon, and the Old Eng lish Silver Shop. Their arrangements were on tables ranging from antique Eng lish, French, ajnd Chinese design to those (Con't Page 15) COnomYvDROCERY FRESH l^ISATS GAINESVILLE CHICKENS Phone 2156 Open Til 9 p*ni* BRSCOm-LOUISi HOTEL ITNDER NEW MANAGEMENT OF KING'S INN r A1 J_ _ J _ J _ jj RHDERSOn'S VRRiETY STORE STATIONERY - NOVELTIES GIFTS - SOUVENIRS INDIAN MOCCASINS COS^iETICS - JEWELRY HOISERY - TOYS THINGS FOR THE KITCHEN ]HlGHLRnDS Super fCyflflRtcET FRESH AND FROZEN VEGETABLES AND FRUITS - MEATS - PET AND NANTAHALA DAIRY PRODUCTS
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