NATIVE PLANTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 10

NATIVE PLANTS.

DISPLAY AT DUNEDIN. ' ./ / ■*' SEVEN HUNDRED EXHIBITS.

(PBEBS ASSOCUTIOIt ,WlJSOBul.> DUNEDIN, February 25. At the Dunedin Horticultural Society's Jubilee Show, which opened to-day, the Loder Cup\, for the best Collection of Now Zealand plants was won by Mr %. Bennett, of Broadacres, Dunedin* Ttltf display also won the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture Challenge Cup for the most meritorious exhibit in tha, show.

I The collection of native plants (all growing specimens) was a remarkable I one, approximately YOO exhibits of the i various North and South: Island species being staged. The outlying islands wefe trfso well represented. All the plants shown were I well-grown and seemed quite at home in their environment, i Olemisias (mountain daisies) were- the ( mo'st outstanding genA«. Evory speciea (50) described by Mr Oheesman in the i Manual of New Zealand Hora was represented, as Well as'more thatl twenty j others a« yet unnamed, "a work for i competent authorities in the, fijtuxci Stilbocarpas, anistomes, rafe veronicas* and olearias from Auckland, the. Campbell Islands, and Cfiathaifa Islands,, besides the most-dntereating genera of thes mainland, were included in the collection. 1 " v »' f ' ' ' ' ' >r ) The judges, Messrs. H. It Uarton, F.B.H.S. (Cbfhtchurch), James Speden (Gore),' «nd ;»r>HeUoway .{3Dunediik)l described ifc as a "valuable, interesting, and wonderful display, and rtvelfcttofe, td the record attendance of visitors tb the show. I ( - &/i a "