WHITELEY FLOWER SHOW

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 192, 17 September 1909, Page 2

WHITELEY FLOWER SHOW

The Whiteley Spring Flower Show opened yesterday afternoon in the Whiteley Hall, and was open during tire 'evening. The display of blooms is surprising, both in quality and quantity, nn,d next year the management will have to arrange for more room, both for the exhibits and the public. The long tables filled with daffodils were a lovely sight, and some of the blooms were of rare excellence. All the popular spring flowers were represented, in eluding the little primrose, polyanthus, | violets, camellias, and so on, and some of the latest varieties, splendidly matured, were staged. The decorated tables and mantles, and the vases, baskets, and bowls of flowers evidenced considerable skill and taste, and wt/e a stron:' section. Amongst tnc specimen plants shown were noticeable a lovely and rare iris, grown by Mr. Newton King, and a beautiful asparagus fern, trained over a frame several feet high, and' about tile best we have seen. The champion narcissus was a Glory Liedcn, shown by Mr. J. Gibson. The Morshead Nursery Co. and Mr. J. R. Duncan made capital displays. Mr. V. Davis judged the cut blooms, and Mesdames W. L. Newman, C. Webster, and T. Brash the decorative section. -The sweets and fancy goods stalls, and the afternoon tea and supper rooms, all conducted by the ladies of the Whiteley congregation, did excellent business, and an "art gallery" and shooting gallery had their share. The "art gallery" is a marvel of ingenuity, The following is the prize-list:

CUT' FLOWERS.

Narcissi.—Three long trumpets, J. Gibson I. .1. 11. Frethey 2, A. W. Woods •"; six. long trumpets.',!. Gibson and J. Frethey 1; three medium trumpets, J. IT. Frethey 1. ,7. Gibson 2, Miss McGahey 3; three short trumpets. J. Gioson 1, J. H. Frethey 2. A. W. Wood 3; collection, J. JI. Frethey 1, J. Gibson 2. Polyanthus—J. Gibso'n 1. Anemone —Three single, N. Allen 1. J. Gibson 3; collection, J. Gibson 2. Hyacinth, singk, J. Gibson 1. Collection of primroses and polyanthus, J. H. Frethey 1, J. Gibson 3.

Collection of azaleas—J. Gibson 1. Three camellias, E. Billing 1. One sprig of heath. J. Gibson It three heaths, J. Gibson 1.

Two buttonholes—Miss Irene Frethey I, Master Alt. Whitham 2.

Bouquet of violets—Miss Irene Frethey 1.

Decorated tables—Mrs. Gibson 1, Mrs Frethey 2, Miss Black 3.

Decorated mantelpieces—Miss Ambury 1, Mrs. Frethey 2, Mrs. Gibson 11. Vase of flowers—Mrs. Frethey 1, Mrs Gibson 2. Bowl of flowers, Mrs! Frethey 1. Basket of (lowers, Mrs. Frethey and Mrs. Gibson 1, Miss McGahey 2' .Miss Barnctt 3.

Fine collections of blooms were shown (for exhibition only) by Mesdames Walker (Ngaire), Vickery (Tikorangi), 1- G. Sole and Burgess (New Plymouth). Messrs Sanders (N«aire) S \V ?J aW, „'!' Gil>snn ' ,ln(I J - H - frethey (New Plymouth).

The show and sale of work will be continued this afternoon and cvonin" Ihe price of admission to-dav is reduced to sixpence.