GARDEN CIRCLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 17

GARDEN CIRCLE

TALK ON GENERAL WORK

About sixty members attended the monthly meeting of the Pioneer Club Garden Circle. Miss Erica Baillie gave an instructive talk on general gardening, and drew the attention' of her hearers to "lobelia cardinalis," which was grown fairly extensively in England and made a great appeal. Miss Baillie also remarked that pansies for the show benches looked much more attractive if shown on moss rather than on the wire frames used by many of the horticultural societies in the Wellington district.

. Mr. George Cooper delivered an interesting address on gardens visited in various parts of the world, taking members in thought on the first step of his journey, Melbourne. The Botanic Gardens in that city owed much of their beauty to the genius of Guilfoyle, one of the earlier curators, of whom Paderewski remarked: "He did with his trees what a pianist tried to express m music." At Adelaide 'the speaker could not but notice how "plantminded" the citizens were, and discovered that great encouragement was given to gardening by the newspapers pjinting a full page on plant each week. After describing the beauties of Perth, Ceylon, Italy, Monte Carlo, France, South Africa, Holland, and the U.S.A., Mr. Cooper admitted that no floral pictures elsewhere could

.surpass the beauty of England in the springtime. How truly, ho said, Kipling wrote: "Our England is a garden." The speaker / concluded his remarks with a word or two concerning Nature's treasure house—Kew Gardens/London —stating that "age cannot wither, nor custom stale" the infinite variety of plants and trees forming pictures beautiful to behold.

A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the two speakers for their entertaining and instructive lectures.

The competition for. the most "attractive Victorian posy was won by Mrs. S. T. Silver, Karaka Bay. Lovely little, Alpine' cyclamen, English snowdrops, and' jiink diosma came from Mrs. J. J. Reich's garden, Belmont, for the "display table," while Mrs. E. J. .Righton, of York Bay, exhibited early spring bulbs, prunus blossom, and Iceland poppies in varying shades.

It was arranged to celebrate Arbor Day by planting trees on the Garden Circle's area on'the Hutt Road. This season pittosporums, hoherias," veronicas, coprosmas," nothopanax, phormium tenax, and' karaka seeds were planted by Mesdames E. J. Righton, A R. Gower, F. W. Petherick, A. J. Dv Pont, Misses M. Cooper, E. Isaacs, and' V. Jacobsen;