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FLOWERS FOR RICH AND POOR1Blooms from Social Functions Are Die*1 tributed by the National Plant Guild.^ At the annual meeting of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild yesterday afternoon at thegresideRce of Mrs. Anne Leary, 1,032 Fifth avenue, many interesting stories were told of what is done mith “ function flowers,” that is the decorations at weddings, balls, debutantes’ teas and other social affairs, which are planned at the disposition of the guild. Even some of the travelers on outgoing steamers send their surplus flowers to the organization.On small boy with a surplus of energy has been kept out of mischief with i a white lilac from the Gould-Decies wedding. It formed the means of a garden for him, which has taken up all his spare energy. Its elegance, however, seemed to him too pallid, and to provide a touch of color he has planted, around it lt;a number of plebeian carrots. From the Gould wedding 8,000 bouquets and 100 flowering plants were distributed among the children of the east side.From the Alexander-Roosevelt wedding 5,000 bouquets were given away. One little girl took her bouquet to school j to the surprise of her teacher, who realized it contained expensive hot-house flowers.“Why where -did you get those, dear?”she asked.“God’s ladv, at the mission, gave themr | to me,” replied the child. j tJlt;^; The Brooklyn branch reported that a j 7 j garden near the Navy Yard Inst sum- ' 'mer kept 140 children happy all through the warm weather. “Each plot, measuring 8 feet by 4, cost $5,” it was said, “not a large sum to keep a child out of court.These officers wera elected yesterday: President, Mrs. John Wood Stewart; Vice President, David Fairchild, Mrs. A. Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Margaret Deland,2 i Miss Louise Klein Miller. Dr. M. Louise -1 Greene, and Mrs. Ernest Iselin; Record-ing Secretary. Seth Thayer Stewart; Sec- va retary, Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw; Treasurer, Robert E. Livingston.S1nlt;mViylt;siinsePicchrof00isnctethStFIFI FVS nFFFWQC flPCMCnNlt;]
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Fri, Apr 28, 1911
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