THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 25 July 1933, Page 3

THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

LODER CUP RECOMMENDATION. The newly-elected chairman, Mr F. J. Shanks, presided over a special meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Horticultural Society last evening. The meeting was convened to consider the conditions at present governing the Loder cup. The Loder cup is awarded each year for excellence in the culture of native plants, and rotates through the four provinces. The suggestion that the form of the competition should He changed emanated from the original Loder cup committee, which was called together in Wellington by the for Agriculture recently. The chairman said that the meeting had been called following a request from the Wellington Loder cup committee that the four centres should send in suggestions relating to the proposed change, recommendation of a special sub-committee set up already was approved. This was: "That in future the award of the Loder cup be made to the best collection of

i New Zealand native plants growing under garden conditions, not including public gardens:— "(1) Points to be awarded under the following headings: Number of species, 25; Cultivation and quality of plants, 30; association and environment, 25; correct naming ana descriptive labelling of species, 20. "(2) The successful competitor to be urged to allow his collection to be visited. "(3) The competition to be on a provincial basis and to rotate annually between the four provinces, as follows: —Otago and Southland, Canterbury and Westland, Wellington, Nelson, Blenheim, and Taranaki, Auckland, East Coast, and Hawke's Bay." This recommendation will be sent to the Loder cup committee at Wellington, which will deal finally with the matter, working in conjunction with the Minister for Agriculture. It was decided to hold a competition for unemployed garueners working under the relief workers' allotment scheme at the forthcoming winter show. The competition would be of six vegetables. Messrs F. J. Shanks, M. J. Barnett (convener), L. T. K. Allison, H. E. Otley, and M. Pryce Jones were appointed a sub-commits to draw up conditions for the competitions for honie gardens, factory gardens, railway gardens, rock gardens, hill gardens, and children's gardens.