The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-27


Key West residents visited the
Flower Show which closed at 10
lo'clock last night and the general
consensus of opinion was that
it was the finest and most illum-
mating affair of its kind ever wit
messed.
! Visitors from % states, includ-
ing Ontario, Canada, as we'll as To-
cal residents, expressed amaze
ment at the large collection OF
tropical fruits and vegetables, the
vast amount of gorgeous blooms.
the collection of wild flowers and
/ the excellent condition of the
large variety of plants.
4 Great interest centered on the
special exhibits of native hand
craft, carved woods, patio table
with wooden accessories, the un.
usual exhibit of old vases, bottles
and pitchers, and the detailed
showing of sHow A Bill Becomes
| A Law"
/ In the opinion of the judges the
ginger plant submitted by Mrs. j.
~. Trevor was considered worthy
of the highest rating. The p.ans
elected considerable enthusiasm,
as many visitors had never before
seen a ginger plant in flower.
! Probably the most popular ex-
h;bit was the one which covered
more than fifty varieties of trop-
Iical fruits and vegetables grown in
Key West. These were displayed
against a background of palms,
lcoconut and date flowers, branch
es of tamarind and sapodillas.
In this display were Avocado
! ALLIGATOR pearl, AlexandriaD
Laurel, bread fruit, bananas, ba-
mana blossom, bergamots, beets,
broccoli, coco plums, papaya, coco
nut blossoms, coconut candy, Gala
$ bash, challot, cabbage, carrots,
scelery. two varieties of date palm
4 flowers, egg plant, figs, goose ber-
, ries, guavas, Jamaica apple, Jap
anese tea plant, lettuce, loquats.
/ lines, monstera deliciosa, morinda,
) citrifolia india Mulberry, name
: sapota. okra, spring onions, pome-
, ! grsnates and the jelly, plantain,
pumpkin, sweet peppers, sappo-
7 dillas, seagrape jelly, blossoms and
leaves, sour sop, sour oranges, sug-
ar cane, tamarind, tamarind pre-
i erve, ties, tomatoes, yucca. Credit
|. for this exhibit goes to Mrs. Step
| hen w. Douglas, chairman of the
committee who collected and ar
, ranged for the exhibit.
! Closely following in popularity
was the exhibit of tropical seeds
and seed pods col ected and ar
ranged by Mrs. A. D. Luethi and
Wallace B. Kirke. Sixty-seven
varieties of seeds and seed pods
were shown in this, as follows:
Alligator pear. almond, aralia,
asparagus fen Australian pine,
bloodberry, bobug, Brazilian pep
pers, calabash, candle tree, castor
bean, cathird berry, cattail, China
berry, coconut, coco plum, coral
vine cork tree, custard apple,
dwarf poinciana, Florida thatch
pam, fob seed, frangipani, gala
de noche, gumbo limbo, horserad-
ish tree, hibiscus tree, Indian null
berry, Jerusalem thorn, live for
ever, mangrove, mastic. mountain
ebony, murilla, moonf,ower, MINI
osa, nicker beans, oleanader,
orchid tree, oxete bena, opoponax,
papaya, pink ball (Mexican), poin-
settias, pomegranate, pongan,
prickly pear, pritehardia palm,
4 rain tree, royal poinciana, red
sandalwood, sand box tree, sapo-
dilla, soap berry, stephanotis, tam
arind, ties, travellers palm, tri-
: bulus or burnut, woman's tongue,
yellow elder, madagascar rubber,
butterfly pea, Alexander laurel,
Hinduras jungle vine, dishrag
gourd and balsam apple.
Two others of the exhibits
| which elected the praise of visi-
tors, were, the cacti garden, with
its brick walls and fine arrange
! ments of plants, in sand beds out
| lined in brick, and circular ar
arrangement of three tiers of many
Varieties of crotons and cokeus.
The committee in charge of this
was headed by Mrs. P. D. Hollo-
way, with Mrs. R. B. Pittman.
1 The section in which was dis
| played the exhibits of the colored
population, was also spoken of in
the highest terms by the visitors.
The displays were sponsored by
the Woman's Civic Club of which
Grace Palacios is president, and
the awards were made as follows:
Bouquets: Blue ribbon, Julia
Riou; white ribbon, S. j. Welters.
Cactus: Blue ribbon, Emily Her.
nandez and Annie Laurie; red
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