THE SCOTSMAN, SATURDAY 25TH AUGUST 1928
FLOWER SHOWS. MANY FINE DISPLAYS. DUNFERMLINE
Compared with last year, there was a slight increase in the number of entries at the annual show of Dunfermline Horticultural Society, which was opened in a large marquee in Pittencrieff Park yesterday. Vegetables and cut flowers were the sections in which the increases were most noticeable. Special interest centred in the open competitions, for prize-money, amounting to between £50 and £60, provided by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trustees. Here the display of roses was stated by competent judges to be one of the finest seen at any show in Scotland this year. W Ferguson, R C Ferguson, Dunfermline, and James Fairley & Co, Cairneyhill, all nurserymen who compete successfully at the national shows, shared the honours for roses, among the newer varieties exhibited by the Cairneyhill growers being the ‘Shot Silk’, in orange and shell pink, and ‘Lady Inchiquin’, a bright cerise.
Other esuccessful competitors in the Carnegie Trust classes were: Herbaceous and cut flowers – Robert Fraser, Kinross; Sweet peas – James Smith, Crawford Priory, and R R Wardrope, Bridge of Allan; Summer flowering chrysanthenums – J Johnstone, Keavil, Crossford, Dunfermline and E Pattie, nurseryman, Cairneyhill; Dahlias – Wm Cuthbertson, Dunfermline; Pansies – Joseph Paterson, Philipstoun.
The National Rose Society’s silver medal for the best rose exhibit by a gardener was awarded to Samuel McEwan, Transylaw, Dunfermline, with two vases of red and pink Dorothy Perkin ramblers. The Rose Society’s silver medal for the best exhibit by an amateur went to J Lister, Crossford, with two vases of roses of assorted varieties.
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