Awards for The 2008
65th Annual NCS Show
Athena Homayouni, Awards Chair
DIVISION I HORTICULTURE
370 entries by
36 exhibitors
Robert Howell – Potomac Chrysanthemum Society
Silver Medal Certificate for winning Sweepstakes in Division I
Best Judges Exhibit Section - Kimie - Sponsor: Erwin Nicole Karr Memorial Award
Best Container Grown Disbud or Spray - Delistar - Sponsor: Long Island Chrysanthemum Society
Best Reflex - Flame Symbol - Sponsor: King’s Mums
Best Pompon - Coda - NCS Award
Best Spoon - Firewheel - NCS Award
Best Quill - Delistar - Sponsor: North Carolina Chrysanthemum Society
Best Brush or Thistle - Cindy - NCS Award
David Eigenbrode – Chesapeake Chrysanthemum Society
Sweepstakes Runner-Up Division I
Bronze Medal Certificate for Best Multiple Bloom Disbuds - Resomee Purple (basket)
Best Decorative - Resomee Purple - Sponsor: Marin Chrysanthemum Society
Best Single or Semi-Double -
Domingo - Sponsor: Central Ohio Chrysanthemum Society
Best Anemone - Seaton’s
Ruby - NCS Award
Best 3 Disbudded Blooms - Resomee
Purple - Sponsor: Greater Detroit Chrysanthemum Society
Best Vase - Symphony
- NCS President’s Award
Best Basket (of 9) - Resomee
Purple - Sponsor: Sacramento Chrysanthemum Society
Martha Best – Chesapeake
Chrysanthemum Society
Bronze Medal Certificate for
Best One Bloom Disbud - Luxor
Best Irregular Incurve - Luxor
- Sponsor: Chesapeake Chrysanthemum Society
Best Disbudded Bloom in Show
- Luxor - Sponsor: The Bill Kunze Award
Best Disbudded Bloom (Section
A) - Luxor - Sponsor: Old Dominion Chrysanthemum Society
John Capobianco – Long Island
Chrysanthemum Society
Bronze Medal Certificate for
Best Multiple NCS Terminal Sprays - Moonbeam
Best NCS Terminal Spray - Yoko
Ono - Sponsor: Pittsburgh Chrysanthemum Society
Best 3 Terminal Sprays - Moonbeam
- Sponsor: Alfred S. Valcho Memorial Award
Tony Dorman – Chesapeake
Chrysanthemum Society
Gold Metal Certificate for
an Outstanding Display
Best Unclassified or Exotic
- Lone Star - Sponsor: Phoenix Chrysanthemum Society
Best Seedling or Sport - Amelia
Tao - NCS “Award of Merit”
Rita Rover and Martin Cohen
– Long Island Chrysanthemum Society
Bronze Medal Certificate for
Best Container Grown - Kurume
Best Container Grown Artistically
Trained Plant - Kurume - NCS Award
Best Container Grown Tree or
Bush - Magic Carpet - Sponsor: Blue Ridge Chrysanthemum Society
Samantha Beitzell – Potomac
Chrysanthemum Society
Best Junior Exhibit -
Alisha - NCS Award
David Curtis – North Carolina
Chrysanthemum Society
Best Regular Incurve - Heather
James - Sponsor: Pittsburgh Chrysanthemum Society Memorial Award
Jerome W. Donohue – Chesapeake
Chrysanthemum Society
Best Disbudded Bloom in Show
Runner-Up - Golden Splendor - Sponsor: Las Vegas Chrysanthemum
Society
Ed Mascali – Joined Old
Dominion Chrysanthemum Society after National Show
Best Novice Exhibit - Derek
Bircumshaw - Sponsor: Jack A. Sato Memorial Award
Jim and Janet McWilliam
– Canadian Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society
Best Intermediate Incurve - Apricot
Alexis - Sponsor: Paul E. Machuga Memorial Award
Bonnie Mirmak – Old Dominion
Chrysanthemum Society
Best New Introduction - Joyce
Fountain - Sponsor: Bob Harberson Memorial Award
DIVISION II - DESIGN AWARDS
Sylvia Deck
Best Designer’s Choice Design
- Classes 1-3
NGC Designer’s Choice Award
Frank Sharpnack Memorial Award
Mary Ellen Alden
Best Design - Classes 4-6
NCS Tricolor Award
Vera Todd Bayles Memorial Award