ABYSSINIAN FLOWERS
EXHIBITION IN LONDON LONDON, Dec. 2. New winter flowers of great interest to garden-lovers were shown at the Horticultural Hall, Westminster, yesterday. One that attracted a good deal of attention grows wild in Abyssinia and Kenya. It bears drooping, bell-shaped, reddish-yellow flowers, and is* a showy climbing plant for a greenhouse. A large group of a new type of Persian cyclamen which begins to bloom early in November and- lasts all the wilder was exhibited by Sutton and Sons. A new heliotrope-colored ornamental sage from Mexico, mimed salvia leucantha, was shown bv Mr. T. Hay, Hyde Park. Purple everlasting (lowers set among rosemary' shoots, from the Greenways Flower Farm, made a delightful winter decoration.
Tn the groups of chrysanthemums the green variety, called Mine. E. Roger, was conspicuous. There were groups of earnations and orchids, the chief amateur exhibit of orchids being from Sir Jeremiah Colman
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 13
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148ABYSSINIAN FLOWERS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 13
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