BULB FANCIERS
“LADY CHAMBERLAIN” DUTCH GROWERS’ COMPLAINT. LONDON, June 4. As a compliment to the visit of Sir Austen and Lady Chamberlain to one of the well-known bulb farms in Holland. the owner has named a new variety “Lady Chamberlain,” after the wife of the Foreign Secretary. Lady Chamberlain’s name will be perpetuated among flowers in a number of instances, for three years ago a firm of dahlia growers named a new variety after her. At that time Sir Austen and also his wife were much in the public eye, in view of the part they both played in connection with the Locarno Treaty. The dahlia is a bta«tiful salmon pink, and was greatly a»dtuiired by visitors to St. James’ Park, where it was grown in one of the smaller gardens overlooking Bird Cage Walk. Floriculturists have a penchant for naming now flowers after popular persons. T recall that in the same year Jack Hobbs won fame in the flower world as well as in cricket by having a dahlia named after him. .
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19280611.2.62.6
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20169, 11 June 1928, Page 9
Word Count
173BULB FANCIERS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20169, 11 June 1928, Page 9
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in