FLOWER DAY.
TRANSFORMING A CITY. (From Our Own Correspondent). ADELAIDE, March 12. Adelaide’s annual Flower Day, on which the city is turned into a living garden, is already famed throughout Australia. The most ambitious scheme yet attempted is planned for April 13. Many millions of rich autumn blooms will be required for the spectacular exhibits and competitive displays, and thousands of people will assist to fashion colourful designs. Huge floral carpets will be laid in North Terrace, the city’s boulevard, while in Central Victoria Square school children and State departments will create a fragile fairyland. In the fine scheme conceived by the Education Department, brilliant floral fans and butterflies will be formed on the lawns, existing beds will become great baskets of living flowers, and scenes from favourite nursery tales will be pictured in flowers against the rugged boles of trees. King William Street, the main thoroughfare linking Victoria Square and North Terrace, will be decorated and other streets will discard tlieir business air and don a garment of bright flowers and garlanded greenery. During Flower Day 300 girls in picturesque costume will distribute posies in the city and many other features will add to the true atmosphere of carnival.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 100, 28 March 1939, Page 7
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