DAFFODIL SHOW
THE NATIONAL AWARDS
(i?y Telegraph—Press Association.)
OAMARU, September 28
The National Daffodil Society Show opened in the Drill Hall, Oamaru, today with 150 entries from all parts of the South Island, and as far north as Wellington and Marton. The blooms were of very high quality and pure in texture, the competition presaging a bright future in daffodil cultivation. The main awards were as follows:— Wilson Perpetual Challenge Cup.—A. Gibson (Marton), 1; H. J. Poole (Lower Hutt), 2. Canterbury Horticultural Society's Challenge Cup.—G. H. Brownlee (Dunedin). Rhodes Silver Cup.—J. T. Gray (Dunedin). Oamaru Cup.—G. bLewis (Christchurch). New Zealand Seedling Challenge Cup.—J. T. Gray (Dunedin). Premier Blooms.—Yellow trumpet, "Royalist." A. Gibson (Marton); white trumpet, "Baldur," J. T. Gray (Dunedin); bicolour trumpet, "Norma," J. T. Gray; incomparabilis. "Mannequin," G. Lewis (Christchurch); "barrii," "Iris," J. T. Gray; leedsii (seedling), W. Balch (Christchurch); champion of champions, "Baldur," J. T. Gray.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 6
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