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Sardeners Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 
1874, 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE E ENSUING V WEEK. 
cult npa eee. s Show, 
orticultural Soc s Show 
Horticu fal Bockkey ’s Sho 
Whitwick preh aceth T 
and Pigeons, at Stevens’ 
ooms. 
F Royal Hi Horticultural Society: Meeting of 
| ne te and Ship Counties. at ES Teo. .M. 
kes wy an i orticultura iety’s 
Weorsoy, Aug. 54 as days) Show. x 
of the Third Portion of Mr, Dawson’s 
ollection of = by Mr. Stevens 
coms days’ 
Aug. fee Hortic Ma Society's Shov 
euk of Fife Horlicaltaral “sécienpte 
Aug. 7 ARE and Boroughbridge Horticul- 
tural Society’s Show. 
STERN, Aug. 8— Horninglow Horticultural Society’s Show. 
= recent exhibition of WINDOW GARDEN 
: grown within the limits of the 
ny oo. (p. 148), and held in the garden 
ion and in this world’s en e 
, and have rendered, great services 
ie movement, but if it is to be a genuine 
y undertaking, endowed with permanence, 
will ultimately degenerate into a sham 
ent no one. At present, how- 
Such exhibitions must necessarily b 
t on feeling and 
tong as there may be necessity 
la Dei is they may be oen 
beyond what is essential for healthy independent 
existence. 
There is one point, however, in which aid 
will always be welcome, and that is in the 
furnishing a suitable site for such displays, 
and this leads us to notice the rumour, which 
we sincerely hope is not true, that the Drapers 
Company propose to sell this secluded garden 
for building purposes. Of course it would be 
absurd to suppose that the holding these shows 
should be adduced Jer se as a reason for main- 
taining these gardens. There are, however, 
other considerations of public welfare to which 
the Company should not be indifferent. It is 
impossible to over-estimate the present and 
prospective advantages to the public of open 
spaces and recreation grounds in our large 
towns. It is not a question of what is pleasant 
and agreeable, it is a question of public morals. 
If these be neglected we all know what follows. 
not those only who are immediately answerable 
for the neglect. 
It is difficult to suppose a more favourable op- 
portunity for doin ga great public good than that 
Even as it stands, the quaint pee 
it affords to the busy world all around is grateful 
and striking. What casual visitor would dream 
that within a stone’s-throw of the Bank and 
the Exchange such a garden existed with its 
green turf, its Plane trees and Mulberries, and 
= ab its really fine display of Water-Lilies? 
accustomed to think of such things in 
chit eoGor hes Oxford Colleges, and the Lon- 
don public so familiar with the Temple 
Gardens, bat not one in a hundred knows of 
2 se sequestered nook off Throgmorton 
Seis of the City Companies, finding their 
occupation gone, and being still in aere 
of large incomes, are casting about to see what 
goo can do Savon. the GREE of 
good fellowship, and the welfare of cooks and 
purveyors. The Turners’ Company has of late 
specially distinguished itself by making public 
is ver thy, there can be n ancial or 
personal reasons for destroying garden. 
ing so, they will lay themselves open to 
By doi 
r aan reprobation, st ates ea Be gee 
course they will maintain mpai those 
traditions of lightened iiberality oi which 
City ae as a rule may fairly pride them- 
selve 
WE are delighted to find that our remarks on 
but simply insert the letter we sa TO 
from Mr. SR GE PAUL, of Cheshun 
ill well understand, that your ia Y 
sete ue arrangements of the flowers at 
ae re i3 A elco an to the thin 
exhibitors of Roses. Anything Mat’ can render the 
Rose show. more po 
which would relieve the, te all of 
isting arrangements, will receive our 
f 
heartiest su 
“ But onions seem to me to cast a slur 
those of us who have for egte principal pace 
pe made an 
WILKINSON, of the Crystal Palace, the aaa at 
baskets of roo blooms of one variety, to produce masses 
arranged or for the eflect such 
of colour either artistically 
masses of colour do pr 
‘ From the remarks of more than one e cite whom 
I have met this , th earn, con- 
idered effective, and more Hee one oe ll 
et of flowers of } umann, shown 
firm, as still lingering in bis ory. The competition, 
however, not, I believe, sufficient to lead the 
ers to continue to offer the li aod i 
“ The 
of this want pip 
will be a iiem teat ean ore or less a 
d 
ay competitive show. 
You remark that 
the exhibitor Price display led to your 
asion an autocrat,’ u 
or any speni selection of fine flowers to beat his 
oorepatitan 
series are 
o than Madame Plan- 
tier, &c., would have b 
“COE course, if the authorities would so alter the 
chedules, and make the highest poe to be those for 
the best-arranged groups of cut n a given space, 
we exhibitors s all willingly try our hf to gain the 
e high positions we have several cupied for the 
‘seventy-two’s’ and ‘forty-eights ' in the present square 
-o i but while t i izes remain the same, 
iven to those classes. 
1s who have Fe ome ourselves to 
re a t taught in ván. 
<T have o ar to add, tbat sich ee exhibition as 
recommend w at a later date 
e exhibitions of 
st quali 
aking a show cc omni 
at least 20,000 fine bloom pe a I 
colleagues, Messrs. CRANSTON, CANT, or Toate Ont 
ise, 
suggestion would be 
W 
fore sateh any practical 
4 = an exhibition as you 
y 
roof t 
would As the p and opportunities o 
many managers, I tre state that, ty accidentally! pry in 
Paris hte a gener t at th 
as proposed, er firm applied bes Pars 
being evi Sees impossi 
“The number Be go een is Te 
is- generaly ole and, to peso ge ibi- 
Kensington arcade 
bin for ror sheh displays, 
see gh nth ge T R ESOR Kappy nei cree 
se grant out tek OË a conversation and novel 
suggestion fora Rose, show which took place in a plea- 
sant Exeter drawing-room during ad a season, 
[Please do.] GE PAUL. 
‘“P.S.—One of my last bt gg a ith ae late 
RRY was in York Minster, awaiting the 
decision of the judges at the York Show. It struck us 
naturally what a 
bree arte of the flowers 
b the thought of all incongruity and irrey 
We are glad ase to have this stella of 
recti ; ssion in; our previous 
in which we seventeen failed to do justice 
to the praiseworthy efforts of Mr. WILLS. On 
this point we can endorse what is said in another 
column. 
B joo abies been known: of the RE- 
ma 
eas, Beans, 
ried Figs, Capen &e., 
milk, and milk preserved with 
Vi ines has been to deteriorate the quality of the wines 
but a considerable improvement has recently 
place both in quality and 
trade las grown 
