NELSON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 15 September 1909, Page 3

NELSON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

. _.- ANNUAL" BULB SHOW. A' PINE DISPLAY AT THE DKILL • HALL:;'/ i: The second ■ Bulb Sho^v iii .connection -with the Nelson ' ..-Horticultural Society. opened at the Drill .Shed this afternoon."' .The" exhibition is' a distincty creditable one, both, as regards the* quality, and -.the. number of the Jexhibits. Entries came in greatly in excess 'of -anticipations, and,energeticyjforkers were hard at it till midnight making . prepajations'^ for ' the show.. -. To accoiumodato' the exhibits it has been necessary to utilise almost the -whole- r of. the available space at Jho v Drill" Hall.' Narcissi, of course, predominate; but many othei , varieties of flowers are much in evidence/there being -fine displays of hyacinths, anemones' and . raniincu lus,.ahd camellias., 'Bowls and basketi of .flowers' .:are. conspieupii*s features and the; ; elightV .decorat ; e'd; ■'-'table's ! _r"< Very attr'activfe; " There was ' goo't competition in ; •: the open-' butt'onhob class, 18 entries. School",.' children'! •buttonholes aro displayed in '.'< hun dredsr-tho - 'Girls ' Central, Hampden street, . Haven Boad, . Tasman, .and -Brook-street Schools' having between them sent, in from 300 to 40Q - exhibits.- ; Pot. plants make- a brilliant d'isplay-^cin.rtirias,- cyclamens, and being. the principal flowers shown. Mi- G. Chapman has a fine to-t of pot plants on exhibition, Mr J, Q,' -Bolton '! sesnt in a--* magnificent amaryllis, and' Miss iSunley !a big collection' of - cornflowers!. -Append- . Ed is4he;.. •■ ■ / :. . ,/V'-- :•' .-:■'!.