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GRAMPIANS WILDFLOWERS
Brilliant Show at Hail's Gap
Something of the glory of the Grarn
nians in spring was presented in con
centrated form at the Hall's Gap hall
last Saturday and Sunday at a show
of the wildflowers of Victoria's most
famous wildflov/cr" area, says the
"Horsham Times."
The show is an annual one, organ
ised by the Hall's Gap Progress As
sociation, which realises that interest
in our native flora is steadily growing
year by year, and visitors who come
to the Grampians for the holidays,
as well as local residents, are eager
to bccomc better, acquainted with the
wealth of floral beauty known as the
wildflowors of the Grampians.
Just 100 years have passed since
B. Hall ovorlandod from Now South
Wales and opened up to squatting the
lovely valley of Fyan's Creek be
tween the two most easterly lines
of the Gramoians range." Like 1940,
the year 1810 was also a dry season,
and Hall, after driving his cattle and
sheep from Monara Plains in scareh
of grass, found at. last sweet, green
pasture in the sheltered area now
known as Hall's Gap. Looking around
at the well apndinted camping ground
with its, swimming ftool and pictur
esque rest house, the visitor realises
that Hall's Gap has seen many
changes since the pioneering days oi'
1840.
The show last wook-ond was one oi
the most interesting yet held at Hall's
Gun and visitors wove delighted by
the disnlay. On the centre benches
were massed the Grampians specialty
-snowy white thryptomenc, and pink
and white tpacris, ti-tree, the purple
sprays of snowy bauroa, brown and
"old nultenaoas, pink swamp heath,
creamy stackhousia, oran/,rc and gold
grevillca alpina and the handsomo
scarlet flowers and green and silver
foliagp of grevillca oleoides. . These
flowers were blended and arranged
artistically.
The decorative effect on the stage
gained by .a background of wattles,
banksias and myrtles, with cyclamens
striking a bright note of color, and
terrestrial orchids in the foreground,
arrested attention.
The classified, section was an import
ant educative department of the
show. The school herbarium included
a representative collection of district
flowers pressed, mounted and named;
also in this section were attractive
designs made from wildflowers, and in
cluding a butterfly, kangaroo and
horse and cart.
Visitors to the show took special in
terest in the very lne display of
blooms of Western Australian flower
ing eucalyptus from Miv'.G, A, Hate
ly'8 garden atyrHUlci'ost,
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