356 TIMEHRI. 
REPORT ON THE RECENT HORTICULTURAL SHOW, WITH 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF FUTURE 
SHOWS, BY G. S. JENMAN, F.L.S. 
Except for the overcrowding of exhibits, which occurred 
in the Economic Division, of which I shall speak pre- 
sently, the arrangements provided for the Horticultural 
and Poultry Show, | think, were as convenient and accom- 
modating to the several and varying needs of the Exhi- 
bition as the circumstances and conditions required, 
leaving very little, and this in minor details only, that 
one could suggest in the way of criticism for improve- 
ments in the future. 
The plant and flower shed was large enough for the 
purpose,—for the large plants of crotons, palms &c., 
shown every year, are seen to much greater advantage 
arranged on the turf around the outside of the building, 
which they set off and give a necessary finish to, than 
they would be inside the building. The whole of the 
inside should be kept, as now, exclusively for flowers, 
ferns, orchids and other of the smaller sized subjects ex- 
hibited. One small improvement that would entail no 
extra expense, which I mentioned last year, is very neces- 
sary in the accommodation of the plants and flowers 
inside ; that is that the staging be considerably lowered. 
The steps of the staging arising from the benches should 
not be more than a few inches above each other. This 
would allow the plants or flowers to be seen to the best 
advantage, while the pots, tubs, buckets, &c., would be 
almost concealed. No other system of staging could be 
adapted so adopted to make everything so unsightly as 
the present one, under which all the varying kinds of 
vessels used are exposed to full view, standing in isolated 
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