THE FLOWER SHOW.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14141, 26 February 1910, Page 5

THE FLOWER SHOW.

NEXT WEEK. The Timaru Floral and Horticultural Society will hold their animal autumn show next Thursday and Friday in the Canterbury Fanners' wool store (kindly lent lor the occasion) when products of the soil from Christchurch to Dunedin will be displayed for exhibition. Very complete arrangements hava been made to show all the exhibits off to the fullest advantage, and to distinguish one exhibit from the next a thill" strip of coloured paper will be used ao that exhibitors using their schedule can follow the exhibits frotn first to last. The chief attractions will be the competition for the Gibson memorial cup. Judging by specimens already shown tho sweet pea collection will surpass anything ever shown as tho very latest varieties have been procured by growers. The hardy cut flower cup, the gift of the Vice-Pre-sidents and members of the committee, will open up the first competition for a collection of hardy cut flowers. The Murdley shield, open to all school gardens in the district, is bringing out six entries, and the. committee to meet with tho growing space required by the various schools have decided on a, special stand for the exhibits. About 600 cubic feet of space frill be taken up with this exhibit and the schoolmasters have worked hard with the children to produce excellent qualities of fluwers, fruit and vegetables. Some of the schools are also competing in the open classes. Next year another new class will be instituted, namely, Messrs Uyder and Sons, fterchants, St. Albans, England, will present a silver pjilt medal for n p-nun of cut flowers in glasses .arranged for effect, tho flowers to be out from t.lm open »'iwl«n. and to be varieties tint are offered in Hydcr and foils' cntalojrue (nlHiomdi the seeds need i>ot nfvossnrilv have been purchased from them), ench variety to ho named mid not loss than 18 varieties to he shown. This competition will ', he open fo "Amateurs and Cottagers." Tho cnmmittf-i appreciate offers of this kind and are doiuo; their utmost tn extend the usefulness of the aims ff tho society and c>d innate a new li**'} "'hen the Sweet I?ea Society is formed. The funs fov fomp'-ti+ioii' and tli« Himllfv phifld n « wcilTTs the plan of tho ha 1 ! showintt tli« arrancenients f "r +he eyhihitc. are row on Hew in 1W J Had-Ufff's window. " TCntriVn will clos" with -thp ssr'-'Hr mi to 0 rv.m. on Ma—h Ist. T\ff .;ihershi" tickets fan li° had o" npnlication to any member of committee.