HORTICULTURAL SHOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9219, 23 November 1888, Page 5

HORTICULTURAL SHOW.

The spring show of flowers, flowering plants, and horticultural displays generally, will be opened to-day, at the Drillshed, Wellesley-street, and the Decorating and Managing Committee have on their part left 110 stone unturned to make the show the biwest and greatest success that has been held since the inauguration of the Royal Horticultural Society in Auckland. The number of entries, 271, is the largest yet received, and the varieties will be very great. The weather, of course, has operated against the production of roses to their full splendour, and the man who can present 36 varieties under the existing difficulties will be, indeed, fortunate. But we may nevertheless look for magnificent blooms in roses as well as in other flowers. Pot plants are now in splendid bloom, and there will be a brilliant show of these. The Decorating Committee — Messrs. Gillespie and McDonaldwere at work all yesterday afternoon, and up to a late hour last night, and they have been most successful in arranging the tables and decorating the walls with nikau, fern, and karaka branches. The front entrance is to have a largelylettered display. The arrangement of the tables is to be somewhat different at this show to what it was on former occasions. Instead of occupying the centre space the pot plants will be placed on the side tables, the centre tables being reserved for roses and cut flowers, and the wall tables will be filled with vegetables on the one side and articles of local industry on the other. A specialty is to be made of the naming of exhibits. The judging will commence at noon, and the show will be opened to the public shortly afterwards.