Grouping at Flower Shows.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3308, 13 September 1889, Page 2

Grouping at Flower Shows.

. At WhitKiiu Exhibition hold at Manchester, groups irrangcd for effect were a leading and very important feature. The amateurs' class for a collection of orchids, ferns, pahs, and other decorative plants, arranged for effect, brought two admirably arranged groups, but both differing materially in detail and in general effect, The first prizo went to an amateur who him for years past mado a great reputation as a successful ex hibitor in tlio Midland o'| Iricts. He laid down a bed of ordinary moss, and in this be placed richly-colored crotons, dracamas, and other hand-some-leaved plants, interspersed with elegant palms, and sufficient of flowering subjects to comply with tlio letter t of the schedule; and he also made an ndmirablcuseof glowing, ornameutalloaved plants with skill and effect. ■Them was a boldness and a dash about tlio conception that won for it the first prize from the judges, Tlio s«cond prize was gained with one of those pieces of effectivo grouping for which Manchester is famous; from a denso beil cf maidenhair fern roso many beautiful orchids, and above these crotons, palms, and such like, all combined with the most charming effect,