PUERUA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2240, 4 February 1897, Page 25

PUERUA.

i February 1. -The flower and garden produce shew at Puerua, held on tbe 25th and 26th ult , was a great success, beiDg better than any of* the preceding ones. The hall waß nearly filled with exhibits, there being about 350 in all. The show of cut flowers and flowers in pots was particularly good, making a very fine display. There was a large number of very choice and elegqnt bouquets, speaking well for the good taste of the ladies in the neighbourhood. There was also a pood show of fruit and reretables. Mrs William Patterson pent a large number of flowers from her well- • stocked flower garden, and among them some novelties, such as a beautiful turnoape lily and a Hyacyntbium candican, also the pure white native New Zealand convolvulus, improved and enlarged by cultivation — a beautiful thing. A fine Crisailia coxmia was shown by Miss Spiers. There were also some pretty yellow Iceland ■ooppie* Bhown by Miss Jessie Miller. Mr Davidson shdwed a very pretty floral device or mosaic work in flowerp, and his daughter a device of a cross of candytuft flowers on moss. Miss Fanny Allison had a nice bouquet of yellow ro*e*. Beautiful bouquets of cat flowers were also shown by Miss Gesrgie, Miss Petrie, Mrs Dalrymple. Mißs Dalgkish, Miss Reid, Miss Shalder?, Miss Dalpleish, Miss Johnston, and others. Mr Dalgleish showed a fine collection of ferns. In th« fruit; department Mr Davidson showed a tray of about 30 varieties of gooseberries and cm rants, there being some especially fine red currants ; and some large goose' erries were shown by Mr Peter Grant and others, and a plate of fine strawberries by Mr Hur- • ring ; also some fine apples by Mr Shalders, large pe-irs by Mr James Shiels, and grapes by Mr Shalders and Mr Patterson. Some fine rhubarb was shown by Mr Dalgleish and other*, cauliflowers by Mrs Davidton, and cabbages and turnips by Mr Shalders, Mr James Hufcton, and others Several varieties of early potatoes shown by Mr Read, of Warepa, and others were very good. .Altogether the show was a credit to the district, seeming to indicate that horticulture it receiving much attention, with ver3' good result*. No prizes were given, and the show seems to have done very well without this form of incentment. There was a good attendance on the two evenings, when the j show was enlivened by some instrumental music, ' and a few pounds were obtained for the benefit of the Willßhire Bay picnic reserve, the entrance j | money being only sixpence.