CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3211, 14 October 1881, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

" A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY

FOR EVER "

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir,—l think that, considering the season of the year, the shortness of the notice, and comparative small value of the prises (not special), the horticultural show of yesterday at Hastings may be considered a success, and I believe that, with the same amount of expenditure (in printing, &c) a very much better exhibition could be got up, if a few preliminaries were attended to. The first of these is to hold the show a month later; the second to allow the judges to draw up a few rules for exhibitors, and the third to allow tbem also to apportion the amounts for prizes. It is needless to point out that there are many of the standing exhibits io, Enghod that will never be competed for in this colony, and there are others that should be more promineutly brought forward. The lot of plants on the ceutre table shows conc'usively what can be done here with some of the classes of plants that excite general emulation at the shows at borne, and it is to be hoped that some of our wealthy wool kings may be induced to turn their attention to the splendid flowers that can be produced here at far less cost and trouble than in England. Our climate here is superior to that of any other part of the colons' for floral productions, and for most kinds of frnit, and it is a disgrace to our settlers that, whilst Canterbury, Auckland, and even that " home of the winds," Wellington, boast of their spring and autumn shows, the only attempts made in this district were such spasmodic efforts as were seen yesterday.—l am, <&c,

F. R. H. S. Napier, 14th October, 1881.