National Gardening Statistics
The first African Violet Show in 1947
Flower enthusiasts from Atlanta, Georgia, have been bewitched by the huge interest shown in the show held African violet HG Hastings Co. in the showroom on November 8 and 9. The traffic jam in front of the store rated Hastings newspaper headlines and media reports said as extra police had to be assigned ordered to keep the crowd before the show opened. In a word, African violets took Atlanta by storm!
Considering the publicity and promotion, was by far the biggest point of interest and participation in any similar show ever staged in the south. There was also great interest in promoting the club ever seen in Atlanta area, with two purple African societies formed on the night of November 8.
To get the statistics, 203 people had 478 individual plants the show. About 1500 people were expected to see the exhibition, and that the number of cultural pamphlets were prepared for distribution among the visitors. An estimate very conservative, however, was that 8,000 people attended over the two days. Visitors came from 103 cities and towns in 14 states – Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Michigan, Iowa, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Texas. Exhibits came from five states – Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina.
The committee approved a schedule showing the classification of eight major categories, based on color groups, and 31 sections named varieties. The eighth class, calling for "best collection of five named varieties in pots no more than 5 cm in diameter, called the contributions of both individuals and groups a garden club. The programming details are given in the table below.
Among the many letters – in 29 states – prompting information about the show, asking if there were a number yellow, violet, rumors Africa would be in view. Apparently, hundreds of farmers had heard this color indescribable, but nobody had ever seen. As a matter of fact, however, no colors, like yellow in saintpanlia genre.
Mrs. Dobbs RH, Jr., of Atlanta, won the prize for best entry "in concert" with its magnificent specimen of Blue Boy. Mrs. Pat Crowe of Rossville, Georgia, won the lottery prize for the greatest number of points, while Mrs. HG Carter of Atlanta was runner-up with just one point less.
National and local societies formed. After a display of Gates Dunn and Boyce Edens of a film on African violet culture on the night of November 8, the group began a process of organization for both national and a local African violet.
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