A Feast of Flowers.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20360, 18 July 1934, Page 10

A Feast of Flowers.

p 11 A Garden Corner.

(CONTINUING our talk of the Chelsea show, with so many outstanding exhibits and consequent variety, the judges must have difficulty in making their awards, which are given for excellence rather than on a competitive system. The Sherwood Cup goes to the most outstanding exhibit in the show, and this year it was won by the well-known London seed firm, Messrs Jas. Carter and Co., Ltd., whose trial grounds at

Raynes Park, near Reading, are familiar to many New Zealanders. Their exhibit was of florists’ flowers and must have been a blaze of colour. Engelmann’s carnation exhibits show to what extent and perfection of culture these flowers may attain. This firm are large growers under glass for the market. Being midsummer, we would expect seasonal flowers like sweet peas, roses, rhododendrons, lupins, liliums, dahlias and delphniums to bulk largely, and so they do; but who would expect to see tulips flowering there in June? There were several fine displays at Chelsea, most likely from bulbs retarded in cool storage. I notice also several allusions to double nasturtiums of Golden Gleam class in other colours, so that it will not be long before we have them out here. T. D. LENNIE.