WOMEN AROUSE NEW INTEREST

Shannon News, 23 April 1929, Page 2

WOMEN AROUSE NEW INTEREST

IN AN OLD-FASHIONED FLOWER,

An old-fashioned flower was the centre of interest at the Royal Horticultural Society’s show, says an English vrTiter. Women gardening enthusiasts warmly wrapped in fur coats, crowded round the circular bed where cinerarias were massed in a blaze of colour. "Women’s interest has created a sudden revival in this Victorian favourite,” an expert said. "We are now working overtime to . supply seeds to clients for future displays.

11 Fifty years ago small cinerarias in a limited range of colours, mostly petunio-and-wliite, were grown. Now that women want them for massed greenhouse displays and for growing in the house, we have had to evolve more striking shades. "The newest kinds are self-colour-ed, without the characteristic white centres. Pastel pink is the favourite shade, and thousands of seeds of this are being ordered. A curious brickred colour is also fashionable, also a vivid royal blue. "The new cinerarias are bigger than ' the old-fashioned kinds, some having flowers of a sin. diameter.”