SPRING FLOWER SHOW

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 231, 16 September 1935, Page 11

SPRING FLOWER SHOW

Exhibits from Women’s Organisations

A bright and refreshing atmosphere surrounds the spring flower show, with its profusion of lovely blooms, which are so welcome after a long wet winter, and it is of great interest to those who are fond of flowers to see what can be grown in other people’s gardens. The Hastings Horticultural Society’s spring show was held in the Assembly Hall on Saturday afternoon, when a fine display of blooms was appreciated by numbers of town and country folk. The women’s organisations again achieved fine results with their collections of spring flowers and' flowering shrubs arranged for effect. The Hastings Townswomen’s Guild were awarded first place for a fine display of perfect blooms, each bowl being complete in itself and all most artistically arranged. Tall brass vases were arranged with glorious camellias, pink blossom and foliage, and other bowls were filled with yellow, golden and orange blossoms. The lower tier of the stand, which was arranged with irregular step effect, had smaller bowls ot Violets, hyacinths, pansies and primroses. The Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Onion won second place With a tiered stand having a background of bamboo, red kowhai and blossom. Along the front were bowls of pansies, grape hyacinths and sweet peas, while taller vases were filled with bulbs. On one side was a most beautiful basket of shaded pink sweet peas, flowering currant and fern.

Third prize was given to the Havelock North Women's Institute, whose display had a background ot Kentia palms. Along the front were trails of smilax and camellias. The bowls of anemones were really perfect, and at each corner were masses.of violets and fern. Hyacinths, treesias, iceland poppies, forsythia, lachenalia and bulbs were introduced with charming effect. fn the decorated mantiepiece section Mrs L. 11. Hicks’s entry, which was awarded first prize, was arranged with brass bowls and smaller vases of wonderful iceland poppies, golden gleam nasturtiums, marigolds, calendulum and foliage. Mrs E. J. Elborne won second place tor a mantlepiece decorated in yellow and orange tones with forsythia, iceland poppies and pussy willow; and third place was won by Mrs E. Dyer, whose colour scheme was purple and yellow, with irises, bulbs, purple sweet peas and yellow foliage.

The exhibits in the section for the best basket of flowers were all most exquisitely arranged with the choicest blooms. Mrs Vaughan’s first-prize basket was in golden orange tones with lachenalia, bronze calendulum and golden gleam nasturtiums, witii touches of grape hyacinths and dark purple primroses. Mrs E. Dyer’s second prize was arranged with pink and mauve sweet peas, pink may blossom, hyacinths, stocks and winter roses. Mrs L. J. Harvey’s third-prize bowl was arranged with lovely hyacinths, ranunculi, marigolds, pink blossom and fern. The bowls of flowers were also most artistically arranged, the first prize being given to a bowl in pink and purple tones with hyacinths, black tulips and fern. Miss Mary’ Wilson s second-prize bowl was of purple hyacinths, grape hyacinths ami yellow mimosa, and. Mrs Vaughan’s tliirdprize bowl was arranged with bronze leaves and vivid marigolds. The decorated dinner-tables were all most attractive, there being quite a good number of entries in tins class. Mrs L. J. Harvey was awarded first place, and her table was arranged with crystal bowls of flowers in red and gold tones with lachenalia, ranunculi, tin., red creeper, tinted leaves and maidenhair fern. Mrs L. H. Hicks won second place for her table in mauve and yellow shades, mauve sweet peas, primula and grape hyacinths with golden gleam nasturtiums and asparagus fern. Mrs Vaughan was awarded third place for an attractive table with crystal vases of purple hyacinths, violets and sweet peas and anemones, with touches of pink and trails of Kennedia. Among the children’s exhibits were most attractive buttonholes and shoulder sprays and beautifullyarranged vases and bowls.

lii the posy section first prize was won by Miss Jean Joll, whose lovely posy was in deep red tones with ranunculi and fern, tiny pieces of blue forget-me-not and a background of scarlet leaves. Miss Phyllis Wright won second place tor a posy with pink camellias, hyacinths, primula and freesias with fern, and Miss Heather Baird’s pretty posy in yellow and blue shades won third place.