Western Daily Press: Thursday 31st July 1879

Redland Flower Show: The seventh exhibition of the Redland and Kingstown Flower Show and Home Encouragement Society was commended yesterday at the Victoria Skating Rink, Clifton … Adult List of Prizes: … Open only to gardeners and gardeners’ wives only: Best three plants, viz. one geranium, one fuschia, and one pot annuals: window grown only: 1., H. Pinsent, 2. Mrs. Hatts, 3, Mrs. Cole: extra prize, Mrs. Pinsent. … Mr. Hosegood’s prizes for the best adapted, prettiest, and most novel window-box, filled with plants in bloom: box not less than two feet long, to be made by exhibitor, and not previously exhibited at any of the society’s shows: open to gardeners and amateurs: 1, J. Griffiths, 2, H. Pinsent …  … Cookery: To be competed for by women and girls only: Best blanc-mange, suitable for an invalid: 1. Mrs. Crowcombe; 2. Emily Always; 3, Mrs. Pinsent: … Best pint of lemonade: 1. Mrs. Luker, 2. Mrs. Pinsent … Best pot mignouette: 1. W. Pillinger; 3. Blanche Salway: Open to gardeners’ children: Best geraniums, window grown: 1. Louise Pinsent; 2. E. Hurn, 3. E. Pinsent, Extra prize: Annie Cole …


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GRO0592 Bristol: Louisa Pinsent: 1867 – 1936
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