FINE ROSE SHOW.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20477, 1 December 1934, Page 22

FINE ROSE SHOW.

Results in Cut Flower Section. OUTSTANDING EXHIBITS. Entries numbering 540 were received for the Canterbury Horticultural Society’s thirtieth annual rose show, which was opened yesterday by the president (Sir R. Heaton Rhodes) in the old Art Gallery, Durham Street. In the competitive classes there were over 200 entries. The two outstanding competitive classes were those for sweet peas and delphiniums.

The judges stated that it was many years since the standard of sweet peas here had reached the standard of those benched yesterday. The decorative classes also showed a distinct advance both in numbers and quality. The championship blue ribbon for the best rose in the show was won by Mr B. Penlington, with “Mrs A. RBarraclough.” The best delphinium in the show was Mr L. B. Hart's “Lady Eleanor.” A vase of sweet peas shown by Mr J. Moody was adjudged the best in the show. ! Mr W. Graham secured the award for ' the most points in the vegetable sec- ! tions. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes’s “Vesuvius”

secured the award for the premier ; single rose in the show. Most points in the children’s classes were secured by Miss Shona Watson. Additional results were:— CUT FLOWERS. OPEN. (Judge: Mr M. J. Barnett). Ten-week stocks (3)—C. Hack 1, H. Williams 2. Twelve kinds outdoor grown flowers (I)—L. B. Hart 1. Twelve blooms flowering shrubs (1) —Sir R. Heaton Rhodes 1. Six vases ranunculi (2)—Mrs E. L. King 1, L. B. Hart 2. Six spikes delphinium (1) —L. B. Hart 1. One delphinium (9) —W. Baleh 1, E. ■ E. Wiltshire (2). Collection aquilegias , (5) —Miss Lola Anderson 3, H. S. Wil- • son 2. Collection paeonies (4)—Sir R. Heaton Rhodes 1, E. L. King 2.* Collec- • tion violas (4) —R. H. Baldwin 1 and . 2. Collection pansies (3)—R. H. Baldwin 1, J. E. Cowell 2. Six sweet peas (B)—John Moody 1, Miss Craw 2, C. O. Genet v h c. Three varieties

sweet peas (4) —T. Whitfield 1, Miss Craw 2. Vase sweet peas (3) —John Moody 1, Miss Craw 2. Vase cream sweet peas (4)—E .Cornish 1, Miss Craw 2. Vase pink sweet peas (9)—John Moody 1 and 2. Vase crimson or dark sweet peas (3)—Miss Craw 1. Vase mauve, lavender or blue sweet peas (3) —Miss Craw 1, H. Williams 2. Vase any other colour (3)—Miss Craw 1, EWhitfield 2. Vase sweet peas, picotee edged (2)—E. Whitflteld 1, Miss Craw 2. Six vases lupins (I)—L. B. Hart 1. Vase Iceland poppies (6) —W. R. Toon 1 and v h c, Miss Craw 2. Any other flower (18)—E. L. King 1, A. Soanes 2. Mrs Jerard v h c. Any new flower (10) —H. H. Gardiner 1, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes 2. AMATEUR. Collection sweet peas (2) —John Moody 1, Miss Craw 2. Thre*e varieties sweet peas (3) —Miss Craw 1, E. Cornish 2. Vase sweet peas, white or cream (5) —Miss Craw 1, John Moody 2. Vase sweet peas, pink (12) —Miss Craw 1, E. Cornish and A. Watson (equal) 2. Vase

sweet peas, crimson or dark red (9) — Miss Craw 1, John Moody 2. Vase sweet peas, mauve or lavender (9)—Miss Craw 1. John Moody 2. Any other colour (6)—Miss Craw 1, A. Watson 2. Vase picotee edged (3) —Miss Craw 1, John Moody 2. Four vases ranunculi (1) — F. W. Crockett 3. Vase Iceland poppies (4)—F. W. Crockett 1, Mrs Bridgewater 2. Six blooms flowering shrubs (1) IT. H. Gardiner 1. Three vases lupins (I)—H. Williams 1. Twelve distinct kinds outdoor flowers (7)—H. Williams 1, Miss Hood Williams 2, Mrs Dunlop v h c. POT PLANTS. AMATEUR. Specimen Pelargonium (I)—Mrs A. Brown 1.