FLOWER SHOW

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 5

FLOWER SHOW

A Beautiful Display SPLENDID ENTRIES Despite the recent spell of cold and Wet weather, the exhibits at the Hastings Horticultural Society’s spring flower show in the Assembly Hall today made a most beautiful and effective display. A delightful feature of the show is a spacious and massed display of flowers by various women’s organisations in the district. The display would make a worthy exhibition even apart from the rest of the show, and is an innovation introduced only this year. Some of the individual blooms, notably an anemone fulgens and several violas, are magnificent, and probably no finer display has ever been seen in the district. One exhibitor of long standing described it as quite easily the best ihow that the society has ever had.

The entries ars as numerous as ever, and tho unfavourable conditions experienced recently, although from the exhibitors point of view they came at a critical period, seemed to have had no detrimental effect on the show.

Daffodils are as usual the principal exhibit, but every other class of spring flower is represented by numerous entries of a very high standard. I’he daffodils are as impressively beautiful as ever, and many specimens are quite outstandingly fine. In the miscellaneous section also there are delightful displays, and once again the decorative Section is very attractive. The show will be continued this evening.

The following are the judges and stewards: —Bulbs, Mr A. Gibson and Mr F. J. Hull; miscellaneous and children’s sections, Messrs G. D. Wilson and Hicks and Miss H. Ford; decorative. Mrs Nicholson and Mr Colin White and Mrs Walter Wright.

Special exhibits were staged by Mr Alan Gibson, Mr H. J. Poole, Mrs H. M. Wilson, and Messrs W. H. Walker and Sons, i