The Garden City

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30063, 22 February 1963, Page 10

The Garden City

Christchurch’s reputation as the garden centre of New Zealand must be strengthened by this week’s magnificent exhibition of the Canterbury Horticultural Society, which to inspiring some travelled horticulturists to mention the Christchurch show in the same breath as Chelsea. This year’s exhibition is, of course, a special one, first because it incorporates the National Dahlia Show, and, second, because it to being held in conjunction with the centennial of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. The special occasion has brought forth some notable exhibits, some of which have been in preparation

for a year. Attention has been given not only to assembling blooms of the very highest quality (few better exhibitions of dahlias can have been seen anywhere), but to demonstrating as wide a range as possible of New Zealand plants, including many examples of the country’s alpine flora. The city’s love of flowers and of gardens is eloquently expressed in the exacting work that has gone into organising and preparing the exhibition. Everyone concerned, the horticultural societies, the civic authorities, and individual exhibitors and workers, are to be congratulated on an exhibition that does credit to the garden city.