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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1874. 
APPOINTMENTS | FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Meeting of the Entomological Bii ni 
e rhe Nelsen Sale at Mr. W. Paul’s, Lough- 
Sale "F ras Lats of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ 
ale of 350 Pens of Poultry and Pigeons, at 
Stevens’ Rooms. 
Sale of Plants from Ghent, and Dutch 
ulbs, ens’ Rooms 
Meeting € Linnean Soc 
Clearance at 
OW that 
over, it m 
few words Toimia and prospective upon 
ates E 
increa their number far and wide 
of a a objectionable nature 
most 
! ghtly. 
A Sone! evident to the prostroters of the 
on ti is that the number of 
„still greater advantages. 
provi 
| own charge, and they avail themselves of their 
knowledge that those or come İs- 
tant places have neither ot opportunity 
horses and two 
_ certai 
generally show a falling off 
the success of the exhibition they are intended 
to serve, and which yet offer serious obstacles 
to exhibitors, 
The railway companies now carry plants, &c., 
to these exhibitions at reasonable rates, and so 
they ought to do, for in the case of the principal 
shows they are by far the greatest gainers ; and 
it is a question whether at the large provincial 
exhibitions, where they carry their tens of thou- 
sands of passengers, whose ping | they would 
not see were it not for the ws in question, it 
would not be to their interest ‘to offer exhibitors 
y 
that finds 
ents this is a sub- 
ject that the committees of the great provincial 
shows might entertain and urge in the right 
quarter, That it would be to the interest of the 
mp ys 
anina ia ne | 
port ‘these exibition by their geecenee so long 
as they keep tp to their past excellence, and that 
can only be done ty drawing more exhibitors 
from distant places. 
The exorbitant demands that exhibitors are 
often obliged to pay for the horses required to 
convey their productions to and from the railway 
stations and exhibition ground is a matter re- 
quiring alterations Many societies provide 
horses for the purpose, but at the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society’s provincial shows those who 
vide the horses are allowed to make their 
to resist their extortionate demands. On the 
occasion of the Society’s visit to Bath, we 
heard of an exhibitor being el hawk £ 3 for two 
9 baini Arae hours and 
hornit: leaving the stable until tl 
again. Such tiag as this deter exhibitors from 
going long distances, and it is to the interest of 
societies to make such arrangements as wil 
secure A TEA aa being imposed upon. 
pace E fruits, and ct e- 
tables; yet nearly all the leading paita 
shiii the Royal at their country show, confine 
their schedule to comparatively few classes, and 
these such things as are the most a to 
the public. This arises, no e from 
necessity than from choice, for unless high prizes 
are offered to attract the best productions in the 
kingdom the exhibitions lack sufficient interest 
to attract the public in such num as 
m societies self-suppo i 
à continuous 
has been a few years established, consequent, 
ling attractions in 
can calcul 
n 
that is igs ed upon subscriptions, yet it 
is of great importance as far as possible to 
induce individuals who are dis to further 
the interests of horticulture to offer special 
prizes for such productions as they may feel 
disposed to encourage. Such prizes generally 
create an interest beyond their actual value, not 
only amongst exhibitors, but among the 
isit the shows where s 
metropolitan ai tar may be the case, as 
also to some extent in the provincial ; but the 
great bulk of the rari who attend the leading 
country exhibitions after the first day, when the 
admission is reduced, and on whom financial 
success so largely depends, give evidence by the 
great interest they take in the objects displayed 
h y are drawn by the attractions of the 
w of 
societies ; yet it can hardly be said that all that 
is possible is done in this direction. 
To induce the public to attend these displays 
everything exhibited should, so far as possible 
be made intelligible to them. The interest 
taken will naturally be found proportionate to 
the opportunities for fully sage wert a all 
ch any 
this 
for which the awards are made are 
in type impossible to be read by a “Cons 
tinually moving crowd. nd often have 
rd expression intment at 
the pdi information doucheatat on these 
occasio 
At one “of the largest shows held during the 
past season, the prize cards were little larger 
than ordinary playing cards, with the name of 
the exhibitor, and 1st, 2d, or 3d prize, as the case 
might be, upon them , but not a sentence to 
indicate what the things were that the awards 
were made t 
in the different ape many 
to dist individual 
i e eac Salisi from 
usual bit of ribbon 
e effect in some cases of 
have found the 
out the competing 
or coloured tape. 
has been that the judges 
est difficulty in making out 
late 
he n of money hey di 
acceptable in the shapé of som 
plate other than cups, of which rf principal 
exhibitors often get more than they know what 
to do with; still better would it be to 
allow the successful er ae the choice 
of such articles as most useful to 
each individual. The objectionable nature of 
challenge Hat for mim 
has been 
Further opportunities of pridig an opinion 
upon them h ave Aas Z to doubt their effi 
ex- 
collections of plants, fruits, cut flowers, or 
vegetables, under the impression that a great 
dis par will doer be made, the object 
ae py 'i nie ar o Í 
itai a and me the icep of cut 
or epergnes, bouquets and 
dinner-table decorations, arnai to the 
best arrangement should never be given, as 
eaves room for cavil, pijes 
individual who can gro 
plants cannot place ste on the exhibition 
stage ina way most monea to their general 
effect, as well as to poe their 
d e 
e article of 
