DAFFODIL "AT HOME."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 221, 11 September 1908, Page 3

DAFFODIL "AT HOME."

® Despite the showery weather the '• "Daffodil At Home'' in the Whiteley llall yesterday afteruoon and evening was very successful, both in point of a 1 tendance and display of spring blossoms. Lovers of tile daffodil or j:t rvissi tribe were well pleased wilh the .wealth, of blooms brought together; til,' exhibition including many choice varieties but recently imported from Old U mid growers. It is doubtful wiietiiiT any better blooms have been J shown in this Island from outdoor gardens than some of the liner varieties : exhibited by Messrs. Frethey and (Jibson. The excellence of the whole dis- • plav gave rise to wonderment that New . Plymouth should be without an organised spring Mower show. Spri;ig (lowers are th.'. popular flowers, for do they not come to us sweet and fresh after the cold winter months when gardo-.is are bafe and llowers unprocurable by many! Fine displays were also made by Mrs. Yickery (Wait.ara), Mrs. Brasch, Mr. J. R. Duncan, and the Morsliend Nursery Co. Mrs. Hrasch's exhibit was a collection of spring blooms, and Mrs. Victory's included some line hyacinths. Fine ancmonies and nearly thirty varieties of camellias graced the Morshcad Co.'s stand, and Mr. Duncan relied on some hundreds of kinds of daffodils, together with aneiuonies, freesias, and so on. Mrs. C'. Webster's Australian wnriuah and -Mrs. T. (j. Sole'.-: choice asparagus fern attracted considerable 'notice. Competitions filled well, 2.) entering for the button-hole competition. The lloral arrangement of dining tables and mantels was excellent.' Prizes were won as follows; Tables —Mrs. Jno. (Jibson 1, Miss i Black 2, Mrs Frethey 3. •Baskets—Marjory McGahey 1, Mrs Jno. Gibson 2, Mrs. Frethey 3. Mantles—i Miss Black 1, Mrs. Frethey 2, Mrs. Gibson 3. Butiton-houes—Master Alf. Whittam 1, Master Ronnie White 2, Eileen .McGahey 3. During the evening the Whiteley or- ' ehestra, under the.baton of Mr. Lawn, played several selections. Another leading and popular feature was the ex- ' eellent. supper, presided over by a committee of the ladies 0 f the Whit'elev congregation.