Something Like a Show.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 20 January 1906, Page 17

Something Like a Show.

There were at least 100.000 blooms ou view at the Crystal Palace when the National Chrysanthemum Society’s great annual exhibition opened (says a recent London paper). The show fully upheld the reputation of the society for providing one of the most gorgeous floral displays seen in and around laindon during the year. The massive pyramids and banks of choice blooms, and the long tallies groaning beneath their burden of the loveliest hothouse chrysanthemums, were worth going a long way to see. The hues were of indescribable variety. Every known chrysanthemum tint was there, from the most snowy hite and dantiest cream to the deepest bronze red. The great shaggy headed and curly headed “Japs" were especially fine: but growers declare that the daintier porn pons aud anemone flowered varieties are now quite as popular as their missive cousins. in the fifty eight classes there were over 250 entries. The gold medal offered for the finest display of i-hrysnntiie-muius, set off with foliage plants in pots, the exhibit to cover a circular space of 300 superficial feet, was won by Mr Norman Davis with a superb collection of 1 plants. Mr W. Iggulden, of Prune, won the Crystal Palace <?enipany’s prize for the best twelve vases of specimen Japs, most of his blooms being a foot or more access Hie head.