SUMMER SHOW.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15259, 22 December 1919, Page 3 (Supplement)

SUMMER SHOW.

(From "The Colonist," Dec 13tb..)

Tho Nelson Horticultural Society's summer, show opened at the Drill Hall yesterday. Although the season has not been favourable owing to the dry weather, the exhibition is a very fine one, the sweet peas and other cut flowers being particularly good. The entires for carnations are not so large as usual, but the quality of the exhibits is good. One of the attractions of the show is Ihe fine display of caY ceolarias, staged by Mrs Renwick, which were much admired. The Mental Hospital has two very fine stands of pot plants and cut blooms.1 Mr E. B. Martin exhibited some splendid specimens of irises, and Mr E. Blackburn a stand of cut blooms, including a new seedling carnation, named, by consent of the Countess of Liverpool, "Lady Liverpool." Dr. McKillop ajso showed, specimens of two seedling sweet peasraised by himself, arid Mrs J. W. Wigzell staged for exhibition only a varied asortment of beautiful cut blooms. A new departure was a class for water colour paintings of flowers, by children. There were good entries and the competition was keen. As usual the children attending the city schools provided large entries for the buttonhole classes. The judges were: —Pot plants, cut blooms, decorative, vegetables, Mr J. A. Day; school buttonholes, Mr B. H. Moller; paintings, Miss Nina Jones. Following is the list of awards: —

POT PLANTS 1 Coleus: A. E. Tasker 1 and 2. 3 Coleus, distinct: A. E. Tasker 1 and

1 Calceolaria: Mrs Renwick 1 and 2., 3 Calceolaris, distinct: Mrs Renwick 1 and 2.

1 Fern, Maidenhair A. E. Tasker 2 and 3.

Miss Cooke 1,

3 Foliage Plants

A. E. Tasker 1