SPRING FLOWERS
TO-DAY’S SHOW The Timaru Horticultural Society's show season opens to-day with the Spring Show in the Bay Hall. The Daffodil Show is always the most popular event of the horticultural year. To-day’s show will be acclaimed the best for many years, as both the quality and quantity of the exhibits to hand are better than have been staged for a long period. The competition for the J. P. Newman Cup is the keenest for years and in the narcissi classes entries are of a high standard. There are more than 200 vases of polyanthus and primroses in the various competitions.
Special displays hav? been sent jv those well-known growers, Messrs H. J. Poole (Lower Hutt), Alan Gibson (Marton) and W. Balch (Christchurch), while the Parks and Reserves Department of the Borough Council will again have an exhibition stand of choice blooms.
A special feature of the show will be a stand devoted to the needlework and craft of the little crippled girl, Betty Steel, of Washdyke, work that she ! s done entirely with her left foot. ’.Che work attracted much comment at the Winter Show and will prove of intense interest. The quality of the handiwork is unusual.
The show will be open to the public to-day from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. and again to-morrow during the same hours.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20536, 30 September 1936, Page 12
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222SPRING FLOWERS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20536, 30 September 1936, Page 12
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