WEST TAIERI HORTICUL TURAL SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 3

WEST TAIERI HORTICUL TURAL SOCIETY.

The West Taieri Horticultural Society held their second show of this season on Saturday. The weather was perfect. A really good display of flowers, fruit, vegetables, and cakes was shown. The pot plants were a decided improvement on last year's plants. Amongst pot plants in flower Mrs Grant was first, with a good double white geranium. In foliage plants Mrs F. A. Bramble was first. In double petunias Mrs George M'Dougal was first, with a good white fringed variety. In a collection of four plants Mr T. A. White's fiisT prize lob contained a good begonia and a palm. In hanging baskets Miss Kempshell was first, with a nice sedum seholdii. The cut flowers were a credit to the West Taieri people. Everything in this section was up to show form. Asters were good, French marigolds were excellent, and annuals (as is usual at this show) were very good. ' Some of the stocks would have held their own at any show. In carnations Mrs A. A. Burns's first prize lot were fit for any company. Double dahlias were good; cactus dahlias were more numerous and of a better quality than those at this show last. year. The first prize lot, taken by Miss Munn, were up to Dunedin standard. The gladioli were superb. Mrs Jas. Dow carried off first prize with three beautiful spikes. LDium auratum were well represented. A few line roses were shown. Perennial phloxes were large and of good color. Sweet peas were not so well represented as usual. The collections of cut flowers were first class. Mrs Jas. Dow carried off first prize. The unwired bouquets were a credit to those who made them. There was not a great display of fruit. The apples were first class, and a long way ahead of anything seen about Dunedin this year. Vegetables were numerous and of very high quality. Beet was splendid in color and size; carrots and parsnips excellent. The heaviest cabbages were monsters, Mr R. Grant carrying off first.with a cabbage weighing 281b, Mr J. Rundle being second with one weighing 271b. Farm produce was represented in some very fine turnips and mangels and a good variety of grain in the ear. There were cakes and scones in plenty—they looked very tempting. For' exhibition only Miss Kempshell sent a very nice vase of lilium auratum, and Misa Fulton a vase of mixed dahlias. Messrs Ben Reid and Co., of Dunedin, had a trades display of roses, dahlias, and gladioli