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Notts Carnation and Picottee Society 2007

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Nott’s Carnation & Picotee Society
Founded 1943
Affiliated to the BNCS

Offices of the society:

President:Mr. Derek Flint,

Chair Person: Mr. Roy Waggott,

General Secretary:Mr. Roy Holden

Show Secretary: Mr. Dennis Hinds

Treasurer:Mr: Dennis Hinds

Contact can be made to any of the above by telephone on 01246 850795 or by E:mail, address, roy.holden2@btinternet.com

The aims of the society are to promote the cultivation of all Dianthus.

Membership costs £3 per annum and runs from 1st Oct.
Membership forms can be obtained from the general secretary.

All members are invited to all meetings, which are held at the Pavilion, Heath Road, Holmewood, Chesterfield, and start at 11am.
Society Shows are held at the William Kaye Hall, Ladybrook Lane, Mansfield.
A copy of both schedules will be sent to all members, or can be seen on this page.

The secretary will endeavour to send out three newsletters each year, depending on the amount of copy available.

If you want to learn more about carnations, meet new people, in a very warm and friendly atmosphere, come to visit the shows, make yourself a member, call in at a meeting you will be made very welcome.

Roy Holden,
Gen: Secretary.

Shows for 2007 available as Adobe pdf downloads:-

Notts Early 10th June
Main Show 15th July

Nott’s Carnation & Picotee Society
A Potted History, the early years
(Affiliated to the BNCS)

Nott’s Carnation & Picotee Society was founded in 1943.
The growth of the society must have been more than encouraging to the very small band of enthusiastic Hardy Border Carnation growers, who brought it into being in a small hut, on an allotment somewhere in the Mansfield area.
Ravensdale Hotel, Mansfield was the venue for the first show, held on the
29th and 30th July 1944. Eleven classes were available for competition which produced, in the region of 600 blooms.

By 1945 the society had become affiliated to the National Carnation Society, and in that year two shows were staged the first show on July 15th and the second on the 28th and 29th July both were held at the same venue as the previous year. By this time the schedule had been extended to seventeen classes for the Border Carnation and one for Perpetual Flowering. At the late July show in the Border Novice Section our current President Mr D. Flint of Shirebrook, won the Novice Cup, Premier Bloom in the Show, Premier Self and Premier Novice Bloom with the variety ‘Salmon Clove’.
Also during 1945 the first copies of, The Hardy Border Carnation Annual and Schedule was issued by the Society, the Editor was Mr. I. L. Barker.

The list of members totalled 140 in 1946. Two shows were held both in July, with the schedules extended still only the odd class for Perpetual Carnations. With membership growing the space needed to accommodate the ever increasing number of exhibitors and exhibits, late July show was moved to the Parochial Hall, Brunt Street, Mansfield. One class for pinks is included for this show. At this show the schedule offered 24 classes, which attracted and I quote from the secretary’s report ‘Number of Blooms Exhibited 2,500’.

1947 saw the first National Carnation & Picotee Society’s National Provincial show held in conjunction with the Nott’s Society’s Annual show. The National schedule offered 9 Classes for Perpetual Carnations and 3 for Borders, these classes where judged by judges appointed by the National Society. The Nott’s show schedule consisted of 30 classes mainly for Borders, but one of the Perpetual classes asked for 4 vases of 9 blooms one variety to a vase and was well contested. A total of 6,000 blooms were exhibited in the two shows.