Source:  The Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, 3b
Date:  13 September 1950
Place: Tewkesbury

BAD WEATHER HALVED TEWKESBURY CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW

Tewkesbury District Chrysanthemum Society’s September show was staged at the Town Hall, Tewkesbury, on Saturday (23 September 1950). Despite a very unfavourable season for chrysanthemums, entries totalled 190, from 20 exhibitors.

AMATEUR CLASSES

Five blooms, incurved, any colours: 1 G Stanley (Overbury), 2 C Halling, 3 G Carter. 5 blooms any colours: 1 A J Smith, 2 A Leddington (Bromsgrove), 3 W Dowdeswell. 3 blooms, white or cream: 1 J Pullom, 2 F N Bennett, 3 E Dowdeswell. 3 blooms, yellow: 1 S Pluckrose, 2 J Pullom, 3 E Dowdeswell. 3 blooms, bronze or red: 1 C Halling, 2 A Leddington, 3 J Storey. 3 blooms, pink: 1 J MacDonald, 2 J Storey, 3 E Dowdeswell. Specimen bloom, any colour: 1 C Halling, 2 J Pullom, 3 J MacDonald. Specimen plant, any colour: 1 G Stanley.