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Club Will Present Gable's Biggest Flower Show

This is the first of a series of four profiles of members of the Coral Gables Garden Club who are in charge of the elaborate flower show the club will present this year in the Coral Gables Masonic Temple, 41 Valencia, the last week in February. Today's subject is Mrs. George R. Simmons, 751 Davis Rd., who had a full color picture in the 1961 Florida Federation of Garden Clubs Calendar. A color picture in this annual volume is by invitation only. Mrs. Simmons is not only a flower arranger, but she designed many of her own containers and vases and had them made by a Carolina craftsman. The containers are made of wood, cooper lined. She lectured and was known for her talent in gardening in North Carolina before she moved to Coral Gables. Mrs. Simons originated and developed a visual school of flower arrangement in Winston-Salem. She called it "The Little Art Gallery." It was designed so that the flower arrangements could be displayed in the proper setting. The Little Gallery had niches, movable partitions and movable shelves so that any arrangement could be framed to scale for display. One of her main rules is balance. She says plant material should reach above the container and it must be in good balance. "One can have good balance without good design," she says, "but one cannot achieve good design without proper balance." Always a great admirer of the late Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, Mrs. Simmons feels as he did that plant forms can express art and that a beautiful arrangement can captivate and inspire in the same way that a beautiful painting does. Mrs. Simmons won many awards and top honors in North Carolina and Virginia before moving to Florida. She continues to hold her place on that level here. Besides her full color arrangement in the 1961 Florida Federation of Garden Clubs Calendar she also had one published in the 1960 calendar, and one of

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