ADDINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11887, 10 May 1899, Page 3

ADDINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The rain which fell on Monday niebt and I^rioas! y interfered with the Addington Horticultural Society’s Chrysanthemum and Pniit Show, which was Md tif Methodist Schoolroom, Street. Many blooms intendedfor exhibition were spoiled, and the . competition was rather limited. The blooms that were shown included some excellent spedmens, and a- feature of the stands was the number, of new varieties exhibited The jadges-(Messis N. L. D. Smith and R: E. M. Evans) made special mention of the ferns in a cohectem of gramhousa pktnts shown by Mr J. Hefwor&, aaad highly commanded Messrs J. E. Yates’s and W. H. Robinson’s' collections of pat plants, which also includ- ' ed some fine ferns. Mr 6. Chapman; of Ifittile River, received a y h c ticket for an exhibit of saedHng tingle chrysanthemums, while Mr Starkiss’s stend of oat blooms was highly cpmmended . * . ilia foilqwihg i»tbe prira-ist; Cut Blooms,—Ga® A: Eighteen Japanese, varieties^—J. Hepworfh, 1. Twelve Japanese, varieties—l. H-opworii. L Six Japanese, one variety—E. Smith L Six incurved, varieties 1. Qaeg B: Twelve Japanese, varieties—Mia ffi'Befc l. ; Six Japanese, one variety—Mre M*Beth. 2.

Beginners’ d&sa..—£s«iX Japanese, varia* Masto H. Siaiili 1. Fraxt.—Class A: Ccdtaction of apples, one pf each variety—J- Gcaw 1. Twelve dessert apples, one variety—J. Craw 1,2 and 3. Twelve cooking apples, one variety—J. Craw 1. .Twelve ■ dessert 'pease, one variety—E. Craw 1. Class B: Six dessert, apples, one variety—J. Yates 1,2 and 3, Six cooking apples, one variety—J. Yates 1,2 and 3. Six dessert pears, one variety—J. Yates 2 and 3. She cooking pears, one/'rariety—J. Yates 1 and 2.

Special Prizes,—Mr Nrwis’s . prizes for chrysanthemums showing six inches of foliage, Japanese varieties—G. Purser 1, D. Craw 2. Mr J. Hepwqrth’s prizes for six Japanese varieties not (previously exhibited at Addington show—G. Purser 1, D. Craw 2. Hr Oppoaheim’s prizes—For best Japanese bloom in show, G. Purser 1; for. best incurved, D. Craw 1.