TO-DAY’S ROSE SHOW
Tlie aiinitil rose show in the Town Hall Is to most people the favourite show of tin' year, no other flower having such a hold ns the rose upon public regard. The show to-day, while consisting mainly of roses, will also ineliido pansies and violas by the hundred, and every other flower Hint Is at present in Hie gardens. One enthusiast has bonked a table 18 feet square to stage calceolarias, a number of which are three feet high. Hydrangeas in pots recently imported, will also have a large tabic to themselves. Native flowers nail berries, rock plants in great variety, and flowers from the City Reserves, 'ill well grown and well staged, will make a feast of beauty. The ladies’ decorative classes, the tables of which are bulged by popular vote, are assured of record'enlrles. A firstclass orchestra- hns been engaged, mil afternoon ton "will lie provided by the ladles of the society. The show will lie officially opened by Hie Xlnvor and ''fnynress. .Mr. and-Mrs. G. A. Troup, af .1 p.m.. anil" the doors will he opened continuously from 2 p.m. tn 0 p.m. After Hie show Ilioi'C Is tn ho an niicfion sale of nrizo blnnnis.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 54, 27 November 1929, Page 13
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202TO-DAY’S ROSE SHOW Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 54, 27 November 1929, Page 13
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