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The new Handbook for Flower Shows is now available from National Garden Clubs, Inc. Member Services at a cost of $15.00 plus postage. All garden clubs and judges are reminded that changes and clarifications in the new Handbook are in effect immediately. Judges Council has ordered a limited number of Handbooks (call Gerry at 847-234-7074 to find out if any are still available) or order directly from Member Services.

Planning a flower show? A design class you may be wishing to add to your next Flower Show is the Capsule-Functional Table, for one person.

The new Handbook reads:

1. Functional table exhibit, restricted to one place setting.
2. The exhibit must always include a decorative unit, but schedule controls whether decorative unit is to be appropriate in size to the provided exhibit space or an imagined full-sized dinner table. Schedule must always provide dimensions.
3. This table mode is applicable to very small tables and to a dining table class in a Home Show where table is divided into four sections cross-wise. One section for each exhibitor, using appointment for one diner and a decorative unit suitable for the allotted space or for the entire table, as determined by the schedule.
4. Capsule Table exhibits are to be judged by a scale of points for Functional Table, p. 303.

Capsule Functional Tables were subject of design study for the Judges Council winter meeting. Four designs were displayed and discussed. Class was titled "On a Cold Winter Day" and the capsule functional table was to include a decorative unit imagined on a table set for six people.

Table 1: Adele Kleine, Winnetka, called this "Cocoa and cookies after a sunny day in snow."

Designer: Jan Thelander, Lake Barrington Roses lend a touch of elegance to this sophisticated table. White plastic and clear glass candle holder suggests a "chill is in the air."

Designer: Dolores Wilt, Grayslake Square and rectangular shapes in dinnerware and floral container provide unity in this capsule table. Cool blue cloth, white mums and large dried leaf remind viewers that it is indeed winter in Illinois!

Designer: Karen Gazarek, Winfield Design unit suggestive of a ski slope with plant material of white hydrangea and calla lilies. Designer named this " A clam chowder supper after all day skiing."

2/2007