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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990

( HONG KONG'S BIGGEST FLOWER SHOW OPENS AT VICTORIA PARK

VICTORIA

PACKED

PARK WAS WITH THOUSANDS

ADMIRATION TODAY (FRIDAY)

BIGGEST

MOST AND THE

FILLED WITH

COLOUR

AND WITH

FRAGRANCE, AND ANXIETY AND OFFICIALLY UNVEILED THE FLOWER SHOW EVER STAGED

OF PEOPLE GASPING

WILSON AS LADY "INTERNATIONALISED"

IN HONG KONG JOINTLY BY THE URBAN COUNCIL AND REGIONAL COUNCIL.

THAN

HONG

THE FOURTH TERRITORY-WIDE EVENT OF THIS NATURE, THE 1990

MORE VISITORS KONG FLOWER SHOW PRESENTED TO

50,000 COLOURFUL FLOWERS AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS OF OVER 2,000 LOCAL AND EXOTIC SPECIES.

MOST OF THE EXOTIC FLOWER SPECIES

So

FLOWN IN FROM 16

AND 60

RARE REGIONS COUNTRIES

AND UNIQUE OCCASION MARKED THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE IN HONG KONG.

SPEAKING

AT THE

ARE

OVERSEAS THAT THE

BEFORE A CEREMONY

WITH SHOW,

THE PUBLIC AN AND WHAT

FLOWER SHOW'S OPENING

FLOWER LADY WILSON SAID THAT THIS PACKED AUDIENCE,

OF THE WORLD", GAVE THE THEME OF "FLOWERS AND GARDENS

WHAT COULD BE GROWN HERE, EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO SEE PEOPLE MIGHT THINK OF GROWING FROM OVERSEAS.

KNOW IT,

THINK

OF

HONG KONG AS A COME, ARE OFTEN MANAGE TO

"MANY PEOPLE WHO DON'T CROWDED, MODERN, ADVANCED CITY. THOSE THAT ACTUALLY

OF BEAUTY AND GREENERY WE STILL AMAZED BY THE AMOUNT CULTIVATE AROUND US," SHE SAID.

NUMBER OF FLOWER LOVERS IN ORDER TO CATER FOR THE LARGE

IN THIS YEAR'S HONG KONG, LADY WILSON SAID, THE ORGANISERS HAD EXTENDED FLOWER SHOW TO A PERIOD OF 10 DAYS, COVERING TWO WEEKENDS.

"DAILY OPENING HOURS HAVE BEEN

ΤΟ LENGTHENED

10 O'CLOCK AT PEOPLE TO VIEW BOTH LOCAL, AND OTHER

IN FROM ALL OVER THE

NIGHT, TO ENABLE MORE BUSY EXOTIC FLOWERS, WHICH HAVE BEEN FLOWN ESPECIALLY FOR THIS OCCASION.

WORLD

ACTIVITIES ORGANISED DURING THE "THE NUMBER OF FRINGE

VERY ATTRACTIVE PERIOD HAVE ALSO BEEN INCREASED, TO MAKE THIS A FUN OUTING FOR ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, WHATEVER THEIR AGE, SAID.

SHOW

AND

SHE

THERE WERE MORE

NOTING THAT

OVERSEAS COUNTRIES

LOCAL AND FLOWER SHOW, LADY FLOWER CLUBS AND ORGANISATIONS TAKING PART IN THE

WISH

WOULD THAT THIS

PROMOTE EVEN WILSON EXPRESSED HER

GREATER PUBLIC INTEREST IN FLOWERS AND HORTICULTURE.

IN

HER ADDRESS,

LADY WILSON

ALSO

THANKED THE

REGIONAL COUNCILS AND EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR BRINGING

ALL OVER THE WORLD, FOR THE AND FLOWERS TOGETHER, ENJOYMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

URBAN AND SO MANY PEOPLE

PLEASURE

AND

/JOINING LADY