ST. MARY'S BULB SHOW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 66, 8 September 1911, Page 7

ST. MARY'S BULB SHOW.

> A FLORAL SUCCESS. Welcome as tlie very flowers of spring themselves is the bulb show arranged bv Miss Devenisli and her colleagues in aid of the St. Mary's Surnky School .funds. 'Die show was held yesterday, and was perhaps the largest and best yet held. New Plymouth is ncv«r without flowers, for which reason the coming and going of the daffodil is not so marked an event, as in colder dimes, where the gardens are snowovcred and dormant for months each year. One good feature of this exhibition is the encouragement offered to , the children to take an interest in the arrangement of flowers, and if the children's section could be so enlarged as to induce them to show the blooms from their <jwn little plots the promoters would Ih> doing a work of lasting benefit to the children themselves and to the community. The children's button-hole section was a wry pretty one, the competitors arranging the flowers very tastefully. Their decorated tables, too, were pood. Of the bulb show itself one cannot speak in too hi'rh praise. There were some truly magnificent blooms. Yellow and white, generally so much in the a c cendnnt in this show of spring flowers, wore relieved this year by sprays of anemones, arctotus, auricula, heaths and many other striking and beautiful flowers of gay colors. The collections of Messrs. Frethey, Shaw and Gibson, and the cottage garden collection of Miss Devenisli. were greatly admired. Comnetition in most of the classes was keen. Messrs. Duncan and Davies and the Morshead Nursery Co., 'niTserymen. had snlendid stands, and tho demand for their new and plorious blooms seemed to be brisk. It should be mentioned that the competitive classes contained exhibits from Dannevirke and Wellington, and Mr. Good«on. <xf llawera, s-"nt forward some lovely blooms for evhihition <,nly. The awards were as follow: ADULT CLASSES. Anemones. Mrs. P. T?. Fitzherbert (Dannevirke) 1. Mrs. Salt 2. Polyanthus Narcissi. Miss Devenisli 1, 0. \V. Govett 2. Cut Bulbs (7 entries). —J. Gibson 1, T. French 2. Cottage Garden Collection (5 entries)., Miss Devcnish L Mrs. W. L. Newman. ?,. Mrs. -G. 'F.: Robinson 3. Collection of A'butilons. Mrs. Ellenn 1. • ' Collection' nf >'Heaths.—Mrs. Ellerm ]. 1 Primulis.—Miss -Devenish 1. Auricula;— Miss Devemsh ]. ; Long Trumpet • Narcissi. Miss Dev- . cnish 1. Collection of .Cut Flowers. ,T. H. Frethey 1, S. W.' Shaw 2. Decorated Tables—Miss Curtis 1, Miss M.i Matthews Z • ' CHILDREN'S CLASSES. Buttonholes (girls under 10 years).— 1 Phyllis Butler 1, Gwen Bayly 2, Ruth . Eva 3. Evelyn George and May. Hard- < wick commended. ' • Buttonholes (boys over 10 years).■'—j GeoVjje Brallbury I'.'. ,];ick Cottier 2,.p01in liA.vlv 3, Dick Wilson,and.pouglag Cot- ' ' ' Buttonholes (fjirl's...over JO y<?ar(j),< —■ 'SvlvH' L!t'((ne'r I', Mnrie( BucJdV.Sj Norah Cork'ifl Jlirs.t, and Gladys ' ( Waldoek .c.ommewjed. • ' Buckle "2!'worah Corkill 3, Jack, Cottiei;:; and Bouoiiet,—G<)orge .Brad- . 'bur^'Jj'lvoftiis ltusselj „• •, IQ. ypfir-s)-.—r., Vivian I?cf!e\V j', .Erije 3, Russell r n,va.V' -, i <wid Brian Johns. con}inen<)('d t ~ ] Decorated.'tables.—.Miss M. .Corkill. 1. ' M' ss l'lyi'lli's ;.Toaj|,. Wil- j ',' i..ii 'Til {iddi.fion i].oiy|T4,,tV\rq;.)y<irc several. tails, "which., apiwajrf.d,' in -hp .doing' 'pnod 'busimiss. . ijhe j«ta!)»hpWfir"i.. Avei-f; Fancy and!p>iin,sb,l)s,, jMjssc? M-, i ham; - ■ ,'tft'n "liftft, a,i!4<?fl' , .. m'' ■■ ' .ii ■. .""i 1 " " ,;i '