GARDEN BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 217, 14 September 1939, Page 4

GARDEN BEAUTY.

FLOWER DISPLAY.

MOUNT ALBERT SHOW.

WIDE VARIETY OF BLOOMS

From the lordly daffodil to the modest but ever-beautiful violet, spring flowers from scores of gardens transformed Kin;? Edward Hall into a •place of %eauty today, when the Mount Albert Horticultural Society opened its annual show. All the newest developments in the spring flower world were there. The naicissi family were conspicuous in all their {ilory. from the paperwhites with their delicate pallor to the deep golden-tinted sol d'ors, in the jonquil section, and the dainty poeticus and leedsii anions those attractive first cousins, the daffodils. In other parts of the hall poppies, stocks, ireesias, ranunculi, anemones, early sweet peas and wallflower competed for attention, their respective charms attracting the admiration of those amateur gardeners present who despaired of ever producing such blooms in their own Entries in the daffodil section were better than last year and the cut flowers display was trood, considering the season. In the decorative section there were fewer entries, but they were of a higher standard. Judfres were: —Daffodils, open and intermediate sections. Mr. X. R. W. Thomas: novice, Mr. K. -I. Keatley: cut flowers, ilr. I\. L. Thornton; decorative, Mrs. A. R. Parr. Prize winners were:— I»I7» OR.vTIVE Kiiwl ni' I'a lisii-s. —Mr>. 1.. M. 1, -Airs. K. Mil]..l- l', Mrs. Wanll'iipr Il.iwl 11:1 ri-issi: Mrs. I-:. .[. K.mi'.'.v 1. Mrs. I. M. »'rni;r Mrs. A. Harrison iluwl liclan.l I.nppif.s: Mr-. 1.. M. I'raia 1. Mrs. A. 1.. Ai.-kin Itowl all imii 1 »m-- : Mrs. L. M. <'rnil. Mrs. 1.. (ianliniT Mrs. Kason Bowl niixei.l flowers: Mr. A. 1.. Ai'-kiu 3. Ill's. 1.. M. 'J. Mrs. E. 1.. Miller Bowl primroses: Mrs. A. 1.. Aickiu 1, Mrs. K. liloine -. Mrs. L. M. Buwl frpesias: Mrs. A. I>. Aickin 1. Mrs. \". M. Boyle Mrs. E. J. Keatley DAKKOIiILS (()peil Se«.*tioni. Twelve varieties. not jess llian four divisions: Siinnysnle ritilii I'arni 1. \V. 11. Shepherd ~ 'I'wolve varic'ies. not less than live divisions: Sunnyside Bulb Farm 1, W. 11. Sheplienl J. Three Mooins: W. 11. Shepherd 1. Twelve varieties, one of each: Sunnyside Hull, I'arin 1. \\". 11. Shepiierd J. Sis triiinpet varieties: W. 11. Shepherd 1, . (j. Edmunds J. AM AT EI" 15 SECTION. Nine varieties, not 1 11 -s than four divisions: .I. H. Braithwaite 1, It. Hart - Nine varieties, not less than live di visions: .1. 11. Braithwaite 1. .1. ('. W'orlev - Sis varieties: W. Edmunds 1. ('. P. Worley Three varieties: .1. .1. 1 ial"v 1, I). I'arr i. Three varieties leedsii: .1. H. Braithwaite 1. t. P. Worley -. Thiee varieties barri: ! •I. liale.v 1 and 2. Three varieties trumpets: .1. H. Braithwaite 1, Mrs. Hepburn Three varieties M-colour truuij.et : .1. lialey 1. D. I'arr 1, Three Idoonis: J. Lialev 1 and 'Z. Specimen trumpet: D. I'arr 1. .1. 'H. Braithwaite Mrs. Hepliurn :. Special bloom ineomp.: .1. Daley 1, Mrs. Hepliurn C. ' Worley Speeiuieti Idooui. lep.isii: . C*. Edmunds 1. I']. .1. Keatley *_!. Specimen bloom, barrii: J. J. Daley 1, D. I'arr J.