LADIES’ GARDENING CLUB

Northern Advocate, 24 October 1936, Page 3

LADIES’ GARDENING CLUB

A DELIGHTFUL LECTURE.

The closing indoor meeting, for the season, of the Ladies’ Gardening Club was a most successful one. The seating accommodation at the Masonic Temple, Albert Street, was taxed to the utmost. The president, Mrs J. A. Inkster, announced the results of the garden competitions, as follows: Front gardens, 66ft and over: Mrs Chandler 1, Mrs Woodman 2. Under 66ft: Mrs Simons 1, Mrs Barry 2. Bed of annuals: Mrs Simons 1, Mrs Woodman 2.

Bed of anemoneg: Mrs Simons 1, Mrs Clinton Jones 2. Bed of ranunculi: Mrs Woodman 1, Mrs Campbell 2. Mixed border: Mrs Simons (onlyentry) . The pot plants were judged by Mrs Finch and Mr Timewell, and the results were:—Silver bowl, for plant grown in open: Mrs Lewis Going (won two years in succession). Trophy for plant grown in glasshouse: Mrs W. W. Logan (won two years in succession). The president then introduced Miss L. W. Cranwell, M.A., who gave a most delightful lecture on her tour abroad. By the help of lantern slides the audience was conducted in fancy to Australia, and thence to Ceylon, Aden, overland to Cairo, past Crete, and Naples, to Pompeii, through the Mediterranean to Gibraltar, and on again to England, Holland, Denmark, and Sweden.

The lecture was really taken from a, botanical point of view, but there were introduced most fascinating details of the lives of folks in other lands. Miss Cranwell mentioned as one, of the lessons learned in her travels, the fact that New Zealand plants have a definite decorative value, and they were to be found growing well in other lands.

The desert, Miss Cranwell said, was interesting in its lack of plants; Cairo, for its ornamental trees; Gbraltar, for its succulent and creeping plantsk Sweden, for its indoor decorative plants; and Holland, “where everjdhing shines,” for its bulbs. The lecturer gave the reasons for the great success of bulb-growing in Holland, and concluded with a. most charming description of her five months’ stay in Sweden.

In thanking Miss Cranwell for her most entertaining lecture, the president proposed a hearty vote of thanks, which was carried with applause.

The hostesses for tea were Mesdames Jamieson, Mclnnes, Wilkinson, A. A. Finlayson, Graham Finlayson, H. Eric Finlayson, A. C. M. Finlayson and C. H. Finlayson.