HORTICULTURAL PRIZES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4405, 3 May 1875, Page 3

HORTICULTURAL PRIZES.

i Acting upon tire principle which has given the province of Canterbury an undoubted supremacy over the rest of the colony in horticultural affairs, the Wellington Horticultural Society has established the practice of offering prizes to be competed for throughput the season. Under this plan, each student in floriculture or cottage gardener is supplied with the-incentive which alone ensures sustained effort, arid excites the citizens generally to cultivate the taste for floral display Mr. Wilson Heaps, the secretary to the society, has kept up the rivalry in a judicious manner, and it is owing tohis efforts that the competitive system lias produced such gratifying, results during the’ past season. The first desideratum was to obtain the prizes, and the following list shows how liberally the inhabitants of the city responded to the appeal made by the committee,! The awards being complete, we append the name of the winner of each prize, with an explanation of the special excellence for which each prize was awarded : The Superintendent’s Brize.—For the competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value in society’s prizes during the season—lst prize, £3 35., Mr. H. H. Travers; 2nd prize, £2 25., Mr. Mason, ’ Presented by Francis Fergusson. Esq., nurseryman. New South Wales.—For the best laid out and best kept amateur’s garden. Entries to. be made before the Ist of August. Competing gardens to be open for Inspection by the judges four weeks before each of the society's ordinary shows—lst prize, £5, Mr. A. de B. Brandon. , J ' Presented by P. Laing, Esq.-For the best laid out and best kept cottager’s (not being a gardener)garden, not exceeding a quarter of an acre, in extent —Ist prize, £3 35., Mr. Dixon, * Presented by G. Denton, Esq.—For the second best laid out and kept cottager’s (not being a gardener) garden, not exceeding a quarter of an acre—lst prize, a set of garden tools, value £1155., Mr. Parris. Presented by T. Mason, Esq.—For the competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value in society’s prizes for cut blooms of roses during the season—lst prize, £2 25., Mr. Mason; 2nd-prize, £1 Is., Mr. Lndlam. :- Presented by Mrs. VogeL—The amateur who takes the highest aggregate value during the season in society’s prizes for variegated foliaged plants—lst prize, £l6s., Mr. H. H. Travers; 2nd prize, 175., Mr. Smith.

Presented by E. Pearce, Esq.—The competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate viflue during the season in society’s prizes in class 1., pot plants —Ist prize, £1 55., Mr. H. H. Travers; 2nd prize, 175., Air. Smith; 3rd prize, Mr. McNab. > Presented by W. Turnbull, Esq.—-For the competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value in society's prizes during the season for fine foliage plants, and variegated foliaged plants in class I—lst prize, £1 55., Mr. H. H. Travers ; 2nd prize, 175., Mr. Sudden ; 3rd prize, Mr. Smith. presented by A. P. Stuart, Esq.—The competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value during the season in society’s prizes in class 111., fniifr—lst prize, £1 ss:, Mr. Mason; 2nd prize, 175., Mr. Laing; 3rd prize, Mr. H. H. Travers. Presented by Joseph Burno, Esq.—The competitor (gardener.or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value during the season in society’s prizes in class IV., vegetables—lst prize, £1 55., Mr; Laing, 2nd prize, 175., Mr. Mason.

Presented by W. G. Jackson,Esq., Stationers’ Hall, Lambton-quay,—The competitor(gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value during the season in society’s prizes in class IL, cut blooms —Ist prize, the volume for 1873 of the Art Journal, value £2 25., Mr. Thos. Mason.

Presented by Messrs. Lyon and Blair!—The competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value during the season in society’s prizes in blooms of verbenas —Ist prize, a handsome copy of “Wood’s Natural History," value £llos., Mr. H..H. Travers. -.-

, The “Clifton Prizes,” presented by Messrs. A. Baker and F. M. Olllvier.—The amateur who takes the highest aggregate value in society’s prizes for.fuchsias during the season—lst prize, £1 55., Mr. H. F. Smith. Presented by W. Seed, Esq, The competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value in society’s prizes. during the season for specimen greenhouse plants, in flower, embraced in class I.— lst prize, £1 Is., Mr, J, McNab. ■ Presented r by E. W. .Mills, Esq.—The competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate value during the season in society’s prizes for. native plants and flowers, including arranged flowers—lst prize, £1 Is., Mr. W. Bramley. Presented by R. J.-Duncan, Esq.—The competitor (gardener or amateur) who takes the highest aggregate, .value duriilg the season in for potatoes -r-lst prize, £1 Is., Mr. P. Laing. Presented by E.* Anderson, Esq.—The lady who takes the highest aggregate value during the season in society’s prizes for arranged, flowers—lst prize, a glass flower stand, value £1 Is., Mrs. McNab. ■'